For the Seventies child, summer holidays meant being crammed into a car with Grandma and heading to the coast. With just a tent for a home and a bucket for the necessities, we would set off on new adventures each year stoically resolving to enjoy ourselves. This memoir is a reminder of just what it was like during summer holidays.

A stolen jewel. Some frozen hearts. And a fish scale. Sounds like a case for Wilma Tenderfoot! Wilma Tenderfoot dreams of one day becoming assistant to the world-famous and very serious detective Theodore P Goodman. But the last thing Mr Goodman wants is a small and slightly accident-prone sidekick.

Wilma Tenderfoot, the feisty and determined assistant to the greatest living detective, Theodore P Goodman, is faced with a peculiar, and pongy, case to crack. Cooper Island's vaudeville theatre becomes centre stage for a murderous menace, as one by one the actors are fatally poisoned.