Who Dun It?

Philip Pullman

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Recently, I've finished a book called 'Who Dun It?'. This book is a detective and mystery story by the author Philip Pullman. I don't really like detective stories and I'm not used to reading these kinds of books but I decided to have a go on this book. This book was in the recommended book reading list and I actually think these recommended books are fun or interesting.

This book is a short story book, where there are lots of different stories in one book. In this book, there were 14 detective stories and I really liked 2 of them. Of course, the other 12 are still fun to read. This book also contains a 1 page mystery question page where we could solve them.

This is my favourite story in this book and it's called 'The One-handed Murderer'. There was a princess living in a castle. When nobody was in the princess's room except for herself, a murderer opened the castle window and tried to come in and kill her. When the princess shouted, the murderer ran away from the castle. Next day, the same thing happened to her. Once again, the murderer ran away when the princess shouted. However, the next day was different. The princess hid next to the window. When the murderer opened the window and put his hand forward, the princess put down the window so the murderer's hand got cut. One day, a young man wearing gloves wanted to meet the king of the castle. The king liked the young man so the princess and the young man had a marriage. When the princess and the man were on the carriage, the young man turned out to be the murderer and he threatened the princess. The princess escaped from the murderer and re-married a sailors son. After a long time, she got caught by the murderer again so he went to the princess's house so that he could kill the princess. When the murderer asked the princess to give him a towel before he killed the princess, she got her husbands pistol and wrapped it in the towel. The princess approached the man and shot him with the wrapped pistol.

I would give this book 3 stars out of 5 stars.