Last week I posted a competition to win two extra-special Jolly Foul Play notebooks for you and your detective society. I got a lot of incredible entries that were funny, inventive, creepy and very, very clever. Daisy and Hazel would be very proud!

It took me a long time to decide – and in the end, the standard of entries was so high that I decided to add in second place and an honourable mention, as well as the overall winner. So . . .

THE WINNER, for her brilliant and extremely scary murder mystery set-up, was Rachel. It begins ‘I’m a murderer. But I’m not guilty. I never was.‘ I was hooked! Rachel wins two Jolly Foul Play notebooks to finish writing her story down.

IN JOINT SECOND PLACE are Rhea, who unearthed a real-life unsolved crime, and Julia, who came up with a very logical way of solving a bookshop murder. They both win one notebook!

And finally, HONOURABLE MENTION goes to Lauren, whose chocolate factory mystery made me laugh out loud. Lauren wins some signed bookmarks!

If all of the winners could contact me at [email protected], I’ll post out their prizes as soon as I can.

And if you entered the competition, thank you so much – I loved every single entry, and I’m sorry that I don’t have notebooks for you all! I think you’re fantastic.