Death in the Spotlight: A Murder Most Unladylike Mystery 07 (A Murder Most Unladylike Mystery, 7)

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But when London life gets a bit too exciting, the girls are packed off to the Rue Theatre to face an entirely new challenge: acting. I have been forgiving of whichever one of you has been playing these pranks on Rose up to now, but this is too much. I’m reading this back two years later (when incidentally I am currently reading Death In The Spotlight to catch up for Death Sets Sail) and comparing it to the actual plot. Their clothes were so gorgeous it took me a few moments to notice the patches on their knees and the rips at their hems, the places where things had been twice mended with slightly different threads.

When we were both down, Daisy and I turned and played our torches around the crumbling stone walls of the room.I hope that Hazel will get the lead role instead of Daisy (of course Daisy will be very unhappy about it) but I want to see Hazel more in the spotlight rather than Daisy.

But I should not have been surprised that the lessons we were given turned out to be, once again, as unusual as Aunt Lucy herself, not like the starchy Deepdean hours of Latin and Deportment and the names of kings. I wondered what else might be far beneath the Rue’s floor and it made me feel wriggly, just as I do when I stare down into the sea and imagine all the creatures swimming about in it, too far down for me to see.The first few days of our rehearsals at the Rue reminded me of what I already knew: that, although I have been getting better and better at being myself, even the thought of pretending to be someone else still sends me into hot and cold horrors.