![]() Kitty was trying to get her hair to curl and Lavinia was struggling with her tie in front of the small mirror.īeanie had been standing by the open window, warm summer-morning air breathing over her, staring out at the green tangle of Oakeshott Woods as if in a dream – and then she turned round and made her announcement. I was still making my bed, folding the scratchy blanket carefully over the neat sheets. Daisy, of course, was entirely ready, so she was lying on her bed with her hands pillowed behind her, staring thoughtfully at the cracks on the dorm ceiling. ![]() There were four minutes left until the first school bell, so we were busy piling books into our school bags and doing up our ties and chattering. It was Friday morning, the third of July, and the five members of the Detective Society were up in our dorm after breakfast. ![]() Beanie turned to us and said: ‘I – I think I’ve just seen a murder.’ ![]()
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