I especially enjoyed the bits in Egypt - I was easily carried along by memories of recent Mummy movies, with plucky heroines and dashing rogues. It is written in period-style, so be prepared to be transported back over a hundred years, where ladies wore lace and bowler hats were all the rage.
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(Quite literally!) Our heroine, Miss Madeleine Main-bearing, is smart, stylish and determined to crack this case in order to make the 'Big Leagues' as more than just a fashion consultant for the Daily Cog & Fog. This is a Steampunk world, where airships roam the skies and clockwork sparrows relay messages like telegraphs, and the settings are imaginative, rich and colourful. (Quite literally!) Our heroine, Miss Madeleine Main-bearing, is smart, stylish and determined to crack this case in order to make the 'Big Leagues' as more than just a fashion consultant for the Daily Cog & F Like a delightfully vintage game of Clue, Maddie Hatter and the Deadly Diamond serves up a clever mystery in whimsical style. Like a delightfully vintage game of Clue, Maddie Hatter and the Deadly Diamond serves up a clever mystery in whimsical style. I hope there will be more Maddie Hatter adventures.more
Part of the story has a Gothic feel but overall, the story is a light-hearted mystery. The mystery has a nice mix of easy clues, harder clues and red herrings. Barnard gives us some fun inventions, lots of humor (some of the character names are a nod to the board game Clue), and vivid characters paired with action, adventure, and hint, just a hint mind you, of romance. She asks for help when she needs it and thinks fast on her feet. Maddie is smart, intrepid, brave, resourceful, and determined. "Maddie Hatter and the Deadly Diamond" is a fun romp. So of course this mystery involves people from their social circle. She gets an allowance from her father provided no one in their social circle ever sees her or identifies her. When the story of the Baron's disappearance hits, Maddie jumps on it, hoping it'll be her big break. But what she really wants is to be an investigative reporter. Madeleine Main-Bearing, better known as Maddie Hatter, has fled her sheltered, cushioned life of the upper class in England and is working in Egypt as a fashion reporter for an English newspaper. at any price.moreģ.5 stars Madeleine Main-Bearing, better known as Maddie Hatter, has fled her sheltered, cushioned life of the upper class in England and is working in Egypt as a fashion reporter for an English newspaper. Outraged investors and false friends complicate her quest, and a fiendish figure lurks in the shadows, ready to snatch the prize. If she can locate the baron or the Eye of Africa, her career will be made. Maddie was the last reporter to see the potty peer alive. While he is supposedly hunting the fabled Eye of Africa diamond in the Nubian desert, his expeditionary airship is found adrift off the coast of England. Miss Maddie Hatter, renegade daughter of a powerful Steamlord, is scraping a precarious living as a fashion reporter when the story of a lifetime falls into her lace-gloved hands.īaron Bodmin, an adventurer with more failed quests than fingernails, has vanished in circumstances that are odd even for him. Baron Bodmin, an adventurer with more failed quests than fingernails, has vanished in circumstances that are odd even for him. Miss Maddie Hatter, renegade daughter of a powerful Steamlord, is scraping a precarious living as a fashion reporter when the story of a lifetime falls into her lace-gloved hands.
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