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. 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. Other guests having a bad time.SEE New Edition at. Very unpleasant for a "high tea" experience when you hear I totally understand that it can be frustrating to deal with guest that have many needs but it's not something that should be dealt with unprofessionally. I felt really bad for the servers as you could tell they were trying to be nice but the chef was being very rude. Sort.of awkward for other guests and also probably made that lady feel very uncomfortable. These conversations were all very loud in a tiny restaurant and you could here the chef yelling WHAT and getting annoyed. Quite unfortunate as it sounded like they called ahead to disclose them.
However, there was a lady at the other table who kept sending things back because they didn't fit with her dietary restrictions. We also really enjoyed the scones but for high tea there was a lot more sweets then savory definitely not a meal but really great if that's what you are looking for. A decent place for tea the serving staff were very nice and friendly.
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