Genius on the Green Express: (Christie and Agatha's Detective Agency 5)

Pip Murphy is a British writer and lived her early life in England on the Wirral. She studied Classics at Edinburgh University, after which she moved to Tokyo, Japan.Pip is also an English teacher and has loved reading her whole life - some of the books that influenced and inspired her the most were ones she read when she was little (she even read every book in her primary school, some of them more than once). Roberta was born in Milan in 1983 and, as a child, she spent her hours drawing and watching a lot of animation movies and cartoons on tv, which became her very first inspiration. She especially loved to draw the magical characters and fantastical creatures described in the books she read. After attending an illustration course and a comic book course, both in Milan in 2005, she began working as an illustrator and comic artist. Roberta illustrates a variety of children's books and magazines.