Arsenic For Tea: A Murder Most Unladylike Mystery (A Wells and Wong Mystery)

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Contents

Cover

About the Book

Title Page

Dedication

Map

List of Characters

Part One: The Arrival of Mr Curtis

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Part Two: An Investigation and a Birthday Tea

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Part Three: Really Truly Arsenic

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Part Four: Things Begin to Look Rather Black

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Part Five: But Who Else is Left?

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Part Six: The Detective Society Solves the Case

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Daisy’s Guide to Fallingford

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Also by Robin Stevens

Copyright

About the Book

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.

THE WELLS FAMILY

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

GUESTS

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

STAFF

Chapman –
Butler to the Wells family

Mrs Doherty –
Cook and housekeeper to the Wells family

Hetty –
Maid to the Wells family

DOGS

Toast Dog

Millie

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