Q and A with Robin Stevens
If you missed our live Q & A with author Robin Stevens, check it out now!Mwaksy asked Robin YOUR questions! Grab a pen and paper because there are writing tips galore in this recording of our live event.
Here is the story YOU created - amazing work!
Fan Club decided that the crime was a kidnapping.
Amy suggested the location was in a Museum.
OpalHappyTurtle suggested the victim was a wealthy lady called Ms. Magpie, who loves wearing shiny things.
Fan Club picked the glasses, as the first clue to examine.
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Our story begins after-hours at a museum where a very special exhibition is on.
Tonight is a glittering exhibition launch where some very important people are gathered. The museum curator has invited famous movie stars, singers, and some wealthy patrons, who have given money to the museum. One of the patrons is a vibrant, character-full lady, Ms. Magpie.
Ms. Magpie is a woman who is really hard to miss because when you look at her she is covered in sparkles. She is very nosy, always moving around, popping in and out of places, spying on people, and examining things. She is a person who is always watching and listening.
Everyone is circulating at the launch, for this very important party. The exhibition is a treasure trove, full of shiny, beautiful, gold things, which were found in a treasure trove, that鈥檚 just been uncovered. Ms. Magpie is bobbing around, looking at things, and decides to go behind one of the cases. The case she goes behind is very big, sparkling, and full of gold, it outshines Ms. Magpie for a minute.
Ms. Magpie doesn鈥檛 come back from behind the case. This is very odd and after a few minutes, the museum curator, the person who has put together this new exhibition, goes around to look for her. She finds that poor old Ms. Magpie has vanished! She has been kidnapped! And we know this because there is a ransom note on the floor where she was, and next to this ransom note there are two other clues that will help us work out, who on earth took Ms. Magpie, why, and help us get her back - I hope.
The clues are a shiny pearl button and a pair of glasses and we decide to follow the mysterious pair of glasses first.
We look around the room at all the people who are at the exhibition and there is one person who seems really suspicious. This person is a very famous novelist, who normally wears glasses, as part of his 鈥榣ook鈥, and you never see him without them, but this evening, he has no glasses. We go over to him and make him try on the glasses that we found next to the ransom note. The glasses fit and he can see, so we realise they must be his, so he is our first suspect!
We say听鈥淒id you kidnap Ms. Magpie? Where are you hiding her? What have you done with her?鈥
And he says 鈥淭hese are my glasses, but I lost them earlier this evening, they fell right off my nose and I couldn鈥檛 work out where they were, it was really embarrassing, but I didn鈥檛 want to have to get down on the floor and crawl for them, so I decided to stand really still and hope that nobody would notice. But because I struggle to see without them, there is absolutely no way I could鈥檝e kidnapped Ms. Magpie and there鈥檚 no way I could鈥檝e written that ransom note, I need my glasses to see and to write. So even though these are my glasses, someone must鈥檝e planted them next to her, I have no reason to want to kidnap her, I think she鈥檚 fascinating, I want to look at her, I want to put her in my new book, but I don鈥檛 want to kidnap her and I couldn鈥檛 have done it鈥
We ask around and it鈥檚 true, he was seen standing right in the middle of the floor, not moving for quite a while and there is no way he was behind that exhibition case with Ms. Magpie kidnapping her. Sadly, we have to go back and look at the other clue, because the glasses turn out to be a red herring, a fake clue, so the person who dropped the pearl button also planted the glasses in order to frame the poor novelist.
We look around and we notice one of the waiters, who is serving the drinks and the food for the exhibition. All of the waiters have the same uniform, with beautiful pearl buttons, but we notice that this one is missing a button!
We go up to her and say, 鈥淚s this your button? And did you kidnap Ms. Magpie?鈥
At first, she says 鈥淥h. My button must鈥檝e just fallen off as I was serving drinks there鈥檚 no way I had anything to do with this, I was busy, I was in the kitchen getting more food and I have no reason to hurt that poor lady! I wouldn鈥檛 have kidnapped her at all鈥
But, it turns out this waiter was not in the kitchen, she had gone out for 5 minutes before, and she was in the room at the time when Ms. Magpie disappeared. We also find out that this waiter really needed money and was desperately looking for ways to make more money. And when we look at the ransom note, it is asking for money, for Ms. Magpie鈥檚 return! When we get our waiter to do a handwriting sample, it matches the note, even though she tries to make her handwriting different, you can tell that it鈥檚 the same person. And so, we accuse the waiter and we say 鈥淭his is your button and somebody saw you picking up the glasses earlier and putting them in your pocket, you must鈥檝e dropped them next to the note to frame that poor novelist and you kidnapped Ms. Magpie, where is she?"
At last the waiter cracks and leads us to the cloakroom where poor Ms. Magpie is tied up underneath all the coats, but when we release her she鈥檚 absolutely fine, a bit upset, but she does point to the waiter and say, 鈥淭hat woman kidnapped me and took all of my beautiful shiny things and said she wanted to get more money for my safe return and this is all true鈥 So we take the waiter off to the police station and we have solved the mystery.
Well Done everyone!
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