Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen: The Seaside Corpse
Young detective Aggie and her friend Hector head to a seaside fossil camp and end up confronting an unexpected body and the truth behind a crime. Inspired by Agatha Christie’s childhood and her most famous creation, the series foregrounds curiosity and the pleasures of deduction.
Work Information
At a seaside dig, a body turns up.
The 2022 English original and the fourth book in Marthe Jocelyn’s children’s mystery series. Set at a seaside dig, it sends Aggie and Hector into another case.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Tundra Books
- Published
- 2022-11-01
- Pages
- 368 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 14.6 x 3 x 21.6 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780735270824
- ISBN-10
- 0735270821
- Category
- 洋書/Children's Books/Biographies/European
For young detective Aggie Morton and her friend Hector, an opportunity to dig up fossils becomes even more thrilling when a corpse washes ashore in this fourth book in the Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen series, inspired by the life of Agatha Christie as a child and her most popular creation, Hercule Poirot. For fans of Enola Holmes . 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 human body.
Toronto-born MARTHE JOCELYN is the award-winning author and illustrator of nearly fifty books for children of all ages. Her picture book Sam Sorts was honored by the United States Board on Books for Youth as an Outstanding International Book, and another picture book, Hannah's Collections , was shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for Illustration. Her novel Mable Riley won the inaugural TD Canadian Children's Literature Award. Marthe is also the 2009 recipient of the prestigious Vicky Metcalf Award for her body of work. ISABELLE FOLLATH has been a freelance illustrator for advertising agencies, magazines and book publishers for over fifteen years, but her true passion lies in illustrating children's books. She uses pen and ink, watercolor and pencil alongside digital techniques to create her work. She loves drinking an alarming amount of coffee, learning new crafts and looking for the perfect greenish-gold color. Isabelle lives with her family in Switzerland.
Reviews
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INCREDIBLE!!!!
So happy I finally read this 4th book in the series. Its 1 of my all time favorite series for a reason. I think I read in the back that this is the last 1, & that makes me so sad! I hate to say goodbye to Aggie, Hector, Grannie Jane & all the amazing cast of characters we encounter along the way. Aggie & Hector's friendship just gets stronger each book, & has the best dynamics. Can't say much since this the 4th book, but we have yet another exciting new location with an archaeological dig off the coast, a whole new murder mystery of course, with a new cast of delightfully entertaining cast of suspects. Aggie is such a strong female MC, who is trying to be the strong female she is in a world that doesn’t recognize strong female women at all in 1903. We see this in a certain reporters story, & even the head archaeologist who does all the work, but her husband is the 1 who gets the credit. Mary Anning is discussed in here, & her grave is actually not far from the site. The humor of historical fiction detective mystery MG is on point with these, & this 1 maybe even more with the unpleasant temporary living conditions & nasty food & how Hector hates it all lol. Love Grannie Jane so much, she contributes so much to their little detective team, & I loved reading in the authors note how the author came up with her character/personality. HIGHLY recommend this whole series. Another STUNNING cover by Isabelle Follath too. 💜
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Murder
what I dislike about the book is that it is the last one to written , there will be no more exploits of Aggie and Hector.
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Wonderful Series Ending
This fourth and final Aggie Morton installment moves slowly at first, introducing an array of side characters and focusing on fossil recovery efforts. However, once the story really gets going, it's back to business for my favorite child sleuths, and the previously plodding book becomes a page-turner. I really enjoyed this, thought that the unconventional ending worked, and found the very end touching. I have loved this series, and even though I wish there could be more, I'm so glad that it exists.
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A good book for kids
It was a gift
Related Literary Awards
- Edgar Award Edition 78 (2023) ・juvenile category