George Mukherjee

**George Mukherjee** is a student at Weston Boys’ School and a member of the Junior Pinkertons. He is Alexander Arcady, Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong’s friend. He is mentioned in the books First Class Murder and Jolly Foul Play, and makes a full appearance in Mistletoe and Murder, Death in the Spotlight and Death Sets Sail, as well as the mini mystery The Case of the Missing Treasure.

## Personality

George is an observant person who possesses good reasoning ability, and is very confident. He can easily read people's emotions personalities upon meeting them, and can easily tell when someone is lying. He is always dressed properly and immaculately. Like Daisy, he has autism and ADHD.

## Storylines

### Jolly Foul Play

Alexander starts to write letters to Hazel after becoming friends in First Class Murder and helps her investigate the Bonfire Night Murder through writing letters in invisible ink (lemon juice) with George giving advice and helping Alexander with the riddles he and Hazel set for each other.

### Mistletoe and Murder

Daisy and Hazel spend Christmas in Cambridge with Daisy's brother, Bertie, alongside Alexander and George, whose brother, Harold Mukherjee studies at St John’s College. Hazel finally meets George for the first time after only hearing about him through Alexander's letters, and realises that he’s not British, but instead Indian. Daisy finds George as smart as he, and thinks in the same way.

### Death in the Spotlight

George and Alexander meet Hazel and Daisy while they’re staying at Uncle Felix’s flat in London. The Junior Pinkertons assist Hazel to investigate when Daisy is sick. They help her escape the Mountfitchet's maid in London so they can investigate and create a recreation of Annie Joy's death. Together, they crack the case.

### Death Sets Sail

When Hazel finds out that she and Daisy will be visiting Egypt, she writes a letter to Alexander telling him about the trip they have planned, as well as the date they will be going on the cruise. To her surprise, when she gets to the cruise, she sees George and Alexander there as well. It turns out that after reading her letter, Alexander took George with him to go surprise her there. On the trip, George joins the other detectives on spying on the Breath of Life's ritual and investigating the murder.

## Relationships

### Harold Mukherjee

Harold is George's older brother. They seem to have a good relationship, as Harold and Bertie took George and Alexander climbing during their stay at Cambridge, however we don't see many of their interactions due to Harold not being a major character.

### Alexander Arcady

Alexander is George's best friend. They created the detective society The Junior Pinkertons.

### Hazel Wong

Hazel and George don't properly meet until Mistletoe and Murder. When they do, Hazel is surprised to find that George is Indian rather than English. Throughout the book, they bond over their shared interest in detecting and experience with racism, and George encourages Hazel through her self-doubt. He also teases her quite a bit about her crush on Alexander.

### Daisy Wells

Due to their very similar personalities, George and Daisy are constantly challenging and competing with each other, sometimes roping Hazel and Alexander into their quarrels. Despite this, their rivalry is friendly and they enjoy spending time with each other and can work together when necessary. Part of the reason why they clicked so fast is because they both have autism and ADHA.

### Lavinia Temple

When George and Lavinia met in Death Sets Sail, they took an immediate liking to each other, discussing politics together and agreeing to go fight in the Spanish Civil War when they're older. Later on, George tells Hazel he wants to marry Lavinia. At the end of The Case of the Second Scream, it is revealed that they actually made good on their promise and really did run off to Spain together. They ended up breaking up due to Lavinia having issues with long-term relationships, however they are still close friends.

## Trivia

* George is Hindu as revealed in Mistletoe and Murder when they have sandwiches.
* George’s father, Sir Mangdalas Mukherjee, is a renowned doctor who was crowned knight.
* George couldn’t go to chapel because of his Indian religion, and was beaten for it at school until his father sent a letter to tell them to stop.  Alexander cried at the beatings, and George ended up looking after him.
* George’s father came to Cambridge as a student and stayed in England, so he and his brother, Harold, were born in London.
* Robin Stevens has confirmed that George is bisexual

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://www.tumblr.com/redbreastedbird/712667872451805184/do-you-think-that-any-others-apart-from-daisy?source=share
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://www.tumblr.com/redbreastedbird/734252853940617216/did-u-always-know-george-was-going-to-be-bi?source=share
3. ↑ https://robin-stevens.co.uk/mistletoe-and-murder-introducing-george/