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Robin Stevens (born 15 January 1988) is an award-winning British-American author of children's fiction, best known for writing the Murder Most Unladylike series.

Early life
Stevens was born in California and moved to Oxford, England at the age of three. She has dual US-UK citizenship. She attended The Dragon School and Cheltenham Ladies College. Her father, Robert Stevens, was Master of Pembroke College, Oxford, and her mother worked at Oxford University's Ashmolean Museum.

Stevens attended Warwick University and gained an MA in crime fiction. She appeared as Captain of the Warwick University team on University Challenge.

Career
Before becoming a full-time author, Stevens worked as a bookseller at Blackwell's book shop in Oxford, and as an editor at Egmont.

Stevens started writing Murder Most Unladylike as part of National Novel Writing Month in November 2010, but didn't send it to agencies for two years.

Stevens has cited the Golden Age of Detective Fiction as an influence on her work - particularly the authors Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Margery Allingham, and Dorothy L. Sayers, collectively known as the Queens of Crime.

Murder Most Unladylike series

 * Murder Most Unladylike (2014)
 * Arsenic For Tea (2015)
 * First Class Murder (2015)
 * Jolly Foul Play (2016)
 * Mistletoe and Murder (2016)
 * Cream Buns and Crime (2017), a collection of short stories and non-fiction
 * A Spoonful of Murder (2018)

Standalone

 * The Guggenheim Mystery (2017), a sequel to The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd

Contributor

 * Mystery and Mayhem: Twelve Deliciously Intriguing Mysteries (2016)