Arsenic For Tea: A Murder Most Unladylike Mystery (A Wells and Wong Mystery)
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Authors: Robin Stevens
Contents
Part One: The Arrival of Mr Curtis
Part Two: An Investigation and a Birthday Tea
Part Three: Really Truly Arsenic
Part Four: Things Begin to Look Rather Black
Part Five: But Who Else is Left?
Part Six: The Detective Society Solves the Case
Schoolgirl detectives Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are at Daisy’s home, Fallingford, for the holidays. Daisy’s glamorous mother is throwing a tea party for Daisy’s birthday, and the whole family is invited, from eccentric Aunt Saskia to dashing Uncle Felix. But it soon becomes clear that this party isn’t really about Daisy at all. Naturally, Daisy is furious.
Then one of their party falls seriously, mysteriously ill – and everything points to poison.
With wild storms preventing anyone from leaving, or the police from arriving, Fallingford suddenly feels like a very dangerous place to be. Not a single person present is what they seem – and everyone has a secret or two. And when someone very close to Daisy looks suspicious, the Detective Society must do everything they can to reveal the truth . . . no matter the consequences.
To Boadie and the MBs, with thanks for years of kindness and friendship – and for giving Daisy her house.
Being an account of
The Case of Mr Curtis,
an investigation by the Wells and Wong Detective Society.
Written by Hazel Wong
(Detective Society Vice-President and Secretary), aged 13.
Begun Saturday 13th April 1935.
George Wells –
Lord Hastings
Margaret Wells (née Mountfitchet) –
Lady Hastings
Saskia Wells –
Aunt of Lord Hastings
Felix Mountfitchet –
Brother of Lady Hastings
Albert ‘Bertie’ Wells –
Son of Lord and Lady Hastings
Daisy Wells –
Daughter of Lord and Lady Hastings and President of the Detective Society
Hazel Wong –
Vice-President and Secretary of the Detective Society
Katherine ‘Kitty’ Freebody
Rebecca ‘Beanie’ Martineau
Denis Curtis –
Friend of Lady Hastings
Miss Lucy Alston –
Governess to Daisy Wells
Stephen Bampton –
School friend of Bertie Wells
Chapman –
Butler to the Wells family
Mrs Doherty –
Cook and housekeeper to the Wells family
Hetty –
Maid to the Wells family
Toast Dog
Millie
