Meet the author

Alasdair Beckett-King.

Writer · United Kingdom · b. 1984

Comedian-turned-author behind Montgomery Bonbon: genuinely fair-play whodunits starring a girl detective in disguise, with a joke on nearly every page. Knives Out and Poirot for eight- to twelve-year-olds.

Alasdair Beckett-King is a British comedian, writer and animator, well known for the sketches on his YouTube channel, who has turned his love of classic whodunits into one of the freshest mystery series for young readers. His Montgomery Bonbon books follow ten-year-old Bonnie Montgomery, who solves murders disguised as a moustachioed, vaguely European gentleman-detective, aided by her ice-cream-van-driving Grampa Banks. Illustrated throughout by Claire Powell, the series is genuinely fair-play crime fiction: real clues, planted red herrings and a solution young detectives can crack for themselves, all stitched through with a joke on nearly every page. From a locked-room museum theft to a storm-lashed island and a murder committed live on stage, Beckett-King serves up Knives Out and Poirot for a new generation, teaching children how detective fiction actually works while keeping them laughing to the final reveal.