The Midnight Blue Marble Author:Melanie Jackson GLITTERING DEATH... 1793: French revolutionaries lop off the beautiful, if rather vacant, head of Queen Marie Antoinette. They claim the Queen squandered France's treasury to buy a sumptuous diamond necklace. Fast forward to the present: Vancouver history buff Ailie Mooney, 14, inherits from her eccentric great-uncle a packet of Marie Antoin... more »ette's letters - and a clue to the whereabouts of the infamous necklace's central stone, a.k.a., the Midnight-Blue Marble. There's a multi-carat problem, though. Someone wants to figure out the clue before Ailie does. Using Marie Antoinette's letters, our determined, if perpetually disorganized, sleuth must hunt down the diamond before she becomes the next murder victim in its ever-bloody saga. Special Features
Includes a Book Club discussion guide right in the book. Praise for The Midnight Blue Marble
"Melanie Jackson writes my kind of mystery! Her impulsive heroine and insomniac suspense will have you shouting, "Don't do it!" as you compulsively travel through the cinematic settings. That is, when you're not laughing yourself silly at humour that goes from nuanced to wacky. And Jackson's background as a journalist and delight in history will ensure that you come away form her mysteries smarter and better informed than before."
-Cynthia Nugent, 2008 Recipient of the Time to Read:BC Achievement Foundation Award for Early Literacy and author/Illustrator of Fred and Pete at the Beach. "Jackson...evokes and blends the best of Gardner, Hitchcock, and Christie."