Baa Baa Dead Sheep

It's easy for teachers to dismiss the formula of black covers and raised gold lettering but there's no denying the attraction of these books, both as series and in the stories they tell. This is the standard whodunnit - many of the kids in the theatre group had a motive for killing the nasty caretaker, but who actually did it? Lots of children will like the lenre which is one to keep them going as readers - and a potential route into all those murder mysteries, often Idult ones, which television mines for each new series.