Sheila Beaumont's Reviews > Once Upon a Crime

The fourth in a most entertaining fractured-fairy-tale detective series, Once Upon a Crime was a great read. In it, Sabrina and Daphne Grimm & company drive from Ferryport Landing, where most of the Everafters, or fairy-tale characters, live, to New York City, to take the ailing Puck to Faerie so he can be healed by his family (Oberon & Titania and offspring). Turns out Faerie isn't quite what it used to be. The fairy-tale detectives find thuggish fairy godfathers, characters from Oz (the Wizard, the Wicked Witch of the West, and we even get a glimpse of the Woggle-Bug), dwarfs in the subway, pirates from Wall Street (one with a parrot who shrieks, "Dump the stock, now! Sell, sell sell!"), and Scrooge (a financial and spiritual adviser) and Tim Cratchit. It was all great fun, and I'm glad there are more of these books to enjoy.