#Aggie Morton Mystery Queen

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Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen: The Seaside Corpse by Marthe Jocelyn

Summary: After an invigorating but not exactly restful trip to a Yorkshire spa during which she survived a near brush with death and foiled a murderer, aspiring writer Aggie Morton and her friend Hector are thrilled to have the opportunity to stay at a camp by the sea and watch real paleontologists at work. The famed husband and wife team of the Blenningham-Crewes are about to become even more famous with the recovery of the fossilized bones of an ichthyosaur from the sea by Lyme Regis. This news has already caught the attention of an American millionaire, a British museum and a travelling circus owner, who each want the bones for their own collections. Tensions are running high throughout the camp, from the cook, to the collectors, to the Blenningham-Crewes themselves, and become downright dangerous after Aggie and Hector make a discovery of their own: a body on the beach. Not a fossil, but a humanbody.

Book Type: Novel

Genre: Historical Fiction, Mystery

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Middle School Monday: Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen: The Body Under the Piano by Marthe Jocelyn with Illustrations by Isabelle Follath 

Ever since her father died, 12-year-old Aggie Morton has developed a Morbid Preoccupation of imagining gruesome stories. But she never expects that her own life will soon be affected by a real-life gruesome story, or that she will be the first one to discover the dead body under the piano! This story has plenty of entertaining characters, including shy but smart Aggie, her patient nursemaid Charlotte, a friendly constable, and Aggie’s new friend, a Belgian boy named Hector Perot.

This smart, funny, and twisty story is inspired by the famous mystery author Agatha Christie. So while this book is geared towards younger readers, anyone who has read Christie before will appreciate the references to her fictional stories and characters. Give this book to older kids and younger teens who appreciate kid detectives and imaginative mysteries!

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Aggie Morton Mystery Queen-The Seaside Corpse By: Marthe Jocelyn

I found this book charming. I could see Aggie Morton as a series on Masterpiece Mystery along side the likes of Miss Marple and Poirot. The environment set the stage for the unraveling and felt authentic. At the start of the book I anticipated the adventure as if I was accompanying Aggie and her uncle on a wonderful journey by car. A huge Thank You to LibraryThing and author Marthe Jocelyn for the opportunity to get to know Aggie and Hector!

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Stuff I Read/Watched in April...

Fairystories (The Piano)

Godfather Death by Sally Nicolls and Julia Sarda

Claudia and the Middle School Mystery by Anne M. Martin

Mary Anne versus Logan by Anne M. Martin

Coyote Moon by John Vornholt

Avatar: The Legacy of Yangchen by F.C. Yee

Enola Holmes and the Mark of the Mongoose by Nancy Springer

Aggie Morton Mystery Queen: The Seaside Corpse by Marthe Jocelyn

The House of Eyes by Patricia Elliot

Murder at Snowfall by Fleur Hitchcock

The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden

Donkeyskin (1970)

The Slipper and the Rose (1976)

Panna a Netvor (1978)

Belle et la Bête (2014)

The Princess (2022)

Damsel (2024)

Inspector Lynley: Season 3 (2004)

Elementary: Season 4 (2015 – 2016)

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Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen: The Body Under the Piano, by Marthe Jocelyn

Have you ever wondered what Agatha Christie's books were like, but you  were too young for them? Now you can get a taste of Agatha Christie with this book. Someone is murdered and Aggie Morton and her immigrant friend Hector Perot must figure out who did it. This mystery will have you hanging on the edge of your seat for the answer to who did it.

- Molly, 12