Reading: The Case of the Drowned Pearl

The Case of the Drowned Pearl is one of the novella-length "mini mysteries" in Robin Stevens's Wells and Wong series. This one sees Hazel and Daisy, along with George and Alexander, the Junior Pinkertons, finding the body of famous swimmer Antonia Braithwaite on the beach on the first morning of their seaside holiday. It's an entertaining if fairly slight story, and althought the mini mysteries don't have space for the examination of wider issues the full-length novels do I liked the way the chapters alternated between Hazel and Daisy as narrators and gave their different perspectives on the events.