Then there’s Daisy’s beloved uncle, the dashing Felix Mountfichet, who’s rumoured to be a spy, or something equally glamorous. Daisy’s great-aunt Saskia floats around Fallingford appropriating small items of value, seemingly oblivious to whether anyone else notices or not. Her mother is absorbed equally in herself and one of the other guests, her new friend, the rude and obnoxious Denis Curtis, who seems to spend rather a lot of time nosing around both his hostess and the family antiques. A governess, Miss Alston, has been engaged to keep them out of mischief as the family and various guests assemble for Daisy’s 14th birthday party, including two of the girls’ schoolfriends, sharp, sarcastic Kitty and timid, law-abiding Beanie.ĭaisy’s father, Lord Hastings, is jovial and forgetful, kind to the girls and the family dogs. Arsenic For Tea, the second in Robin Stevens’ Wells and Wong Detective Society series, sees Daisy Wells and her friend Hazel Wong spending the school holidays in the fading grandeur of Daisy’s ancestral home, Fallingford.
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