“The Magnificent Matter of the Mischievous Monkey” in C. & M. Marsh, Girl Detectives
“The Magnificent Matter of the Mischievous Monkey” was technically my third Marsh sisters story, as I wrote it after The Trouble with the Tick-Tock Tabby. It’s also the title in this series I’m most likely to foul up, as it went through a few iterations before I got it to work within my self-dictated naming scheme. It branches off of the idea of Tick-Tock Tabby in introducing other mechanical animals to the mechanical garden.
This story is also dear to my heart because it’s in memory of my late cousin. The day I got the acceptance for my first sold story (“The Recondite Riddle of the Rose Rogue“), I had met up with my cousin for tea, and we had talked about my writing. Later that day, when I got the acceptance, she was one of the first people I told. A few years later, she was diagnosed with late stage, aggressive cancer and passed away not too long after. So when I started writing this story, I made the secondary character an architect (my cousin’s career) and gave that character my cousin’s middle name as a first name.
“The Magnificent Matter of the Mischievous Monkey” was first published in the Young Explorer’s Adventure Guide, vol. 5, and then reprinted in C. & M. Marsh, Girl Detectives!
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