But they are struggling to find any real crimes to investigate. 'Plotting is what sets this book apart' TelegraphĪt Deepdean School for Girls, Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong have set up their own detective agency. She is regarded as ‘terribly glamorous’, ‘wonderful’ and ‘the sort of person that people make up myths about’.The first marvellous murder mystery in the bestselling Murder Most Unladylike series! Hazel sees them kissing on the boat in Death Sets SailĪmina has smooth pale brown skin and a glossy head of dark hair, a pretty face, and feet as small as Cinderella’s.

In Death Sets Sail she is in a relationship with Daisy Wells. The excessive flattery she receives does not make her arrogant, nor affect her amiable character, which makes her generally likeable. Her pranks seem to be her most unlikely yet most unladylike traits, making her the perfect undercover detective. She is always full of wild stories and naughtiness. She becomes a member of the Wells and Wong Detective Society, and solves the case along with the detectives.Īmina is a frisky and kittenish girl who behaves like royalty. At the end, Amina finds Hazel and Daisy interesting, and would like to be friends with them, and although Daisy does not want to show it, she is actually glad to befriend Amina.Īmina invites Daisy and Hazel to Egypt, her hometown for the holidays, and Alexander and George come along. During the first two weeks she was late to every lesson and convinced all the mistresses she had never learned to tell the time.Īfter caught up in a fury of murder and detecting, Daisy and Hazel return to Deepdean, only to find that Amina, who has just come to Deepdean from Cairo, Egypt, is now the most popular girl and has taken over Daisy, who naturally becomes furious.

She started at Deepdean School for Girls during the spring term of 1936 and was bullied at first, but quickly became popular. A naughty and rebellious student, Amina quickly went through all the schools in Cairo, including Hampden School for Ladies. Amina wanted to go to school, and she and her sisters and aunts bullied her parents into it. She had more than one older sister and a French governess called Miss Beauvais who she played pranks on, including one involving a mouse in Amina's pocket. Amina grew up in Cairo, Egypt, in a big house overlooking the River Nile.

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