The Case of the Diamond Shadow is a fun mystery novel set in England in the glamorous 1930's. Its main characters are Daisy Miller and George Dale, two young people whose lives are irrevocably changed when a rich, mysterious Australian woman, Mrs Peabody, puts an ad in their local newspaper. Soon they are whisked off into a whirl of high adventure, high society, the exploits of a daring jewel thief who calls himself the Diamond Shadow and the casebook of the famous dashing detective, Philip Woodley-Foxe! When the Diamond Shadow threatens the most famous gem in the world, the Blue Moon Diamond, given to film star Olivia Marlow by her lover, the Prince of Luxenstein, the ingenuity of our friends is stretched to the absolute max, with clues contained in all sorts of things, including an enigmatic comic strip in Young Reporter true-crime magazine..

The Case of the Diamond Shadow is coming out with ABC Books in July 2008.