Angleterre,1902. Douée d'une insatiable curiosité et d'une folle imagination, la jeune Agatha Caroline Morton s'ennuie dans sa petite ville de bord de mer... jusqu'au jour où on découvre un cadavre au studio de danse des Sirènes. Avec son ami Hector Perot, Aggie compte bien innocenter Miss Marianne, sa chère professeure de danse. Tandis que le meurtrier rôde, la liste des suspects s'allonge...
Ces derniers temps, Mamie n'est plus comme avant. Elle ne fait plus de gâteaux, ne prend plus soin de son chat et surtout, elle ne sourit plus. La maman d'Alice lui dit que Mamie a perdu sa joie. Puisque c'est comme ça, Alice va partir à la recherche de la joie pour la ramener à sa mamie !
Mais où peut-elle trouver la joie ?
Et comment peut-elle l'attraper ?
Drôle, émouvant et inspirant, cet album ravira petits et grands !
For young detective Aggie Morton and her friend Hector, Christmas becomes a lot more exciting when a dead body is found in this second 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 The Wollstonecraft Detective Agency. Aspiring writer Aggie Morton is looking forward to Christmas. Having just solved a murder and survived her own brush with death in her small town of Torquay on the coast of England, Aggie can't wait to spend the holidays with her sister Marjorie, the new Lady Greyson of Owl Park, an enormous manor house in the country; Grannie Jane and her fellow sleuth and partner in crime, Hector Perot. Owl Park holds many delights including Aggie's almost cousin Lucy, exciting and glamorous visitors from Ceylon and disguises aplenty in the form of a group of travelling actors, not to mention a secret passageway AND an enormous, cursed emerald. Not even glowering old Lady Greyson (the Senior) can interfere with Aggie's festive cheer. But when Aggie and her friends discover a body instead of presents on Christmas morning, things take a deadly serious turn. With the help of a certain nosy reporter, Aggie and Hector will once again have to put their deductive skills and imaginations to work to find the murderer on the loose. Filled with mystery, adventure, unforgettable characters and several helpings of tea and Christmas pudding, The Body on the Library Carpet is the second book in a new series for middle-grade readers and Christie and Poirot fans everywhere.