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Arsenic For Tea

  • Imprint: Puffin

  • ISBN: 9780141369815

  • Length: 371  Minutes

  • RRP: £10.00

Arsenic For Tea

Penguin presents, the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Arsenic For Tea by Robin Stevens, read by Gemma Chan.

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.

'The second book in Robin Stevens' fabulous Wells and Wong schoolgirl detective series - think St Trinians mixed with Miss Marple. These are thrilling books for tween detectives who adore solving dastardly murders, jolly hockey sticks and iced buns for tea' Guardian

'A delight . . . The Agatha Christie-style clues are unravelled with sustained tension and the whole thing is a hoot from start to finish' Daily Mail

'A feelgood blend of Malory Towers and Cluedo . . . Stevens has upped her game in this new volume' Telegraph

  • Imprint: Puffin

  • ISBN: 9780141369815

  • Length: 371  Minutes

  • RRP: £10.00

Reviews

  • The second book in Robin Stevens' fabulous Wells and Wong schoolgirl detective series - think St Trinians mixed with Miss Marple. These are thrilling books for tween detectives who adore solving dastardly murders, jolly hockey sticks and iced buns for tea

    Guardian

  • A delight . . . The Agatha Christie-style clues are unravelled with sustained tension and the whole thing is a hoot from start to finish

    Sally Morris, Daily Mail

  • A feelgood blend of Malory Towers and Cluedo . . . Stevens has upped her game in this new volume

    Telegraph

  • A feast for readers

    Amanda Craig, New Statesman

  • An entertaining, nostalgic brainteaser

    Sunday Times

  • pitch-perfect 1930s mystery

    Metro

  • Arsenic for Tea is a joy. A multi-layered sandwich cake of joy . . . Stylish, charming, witty and delightful . . . Worth cancelling everything for

    Did You Ever Stop To Think

  • These Agatha-Christie-indebted tales involve detective duo Daisy Wells and her sidekick Hazel Wong, wealthy schoolgirls from England and Hong Kong. In the first book, they investigated a murder at their boarding school. This time, Daisy's family's stately home - a hotbed of jealousy and greed - provides a rich cast of suspects when it's not just the cake candles that are snuffed out at a birthday tea party. Emotional conflict, logical deduction and the period setting make for an entertaining, nostalgic brainteaser

    Nicolette Jones, Sunday Times

  • Even better than its predecessor . . . Brilliant

    The Book Zone

  • This series comes vibrantly to life with Hazel's warm, charming narration and I just want more Wells and Wong Mysteries

    So Many Books, So Little Time

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About the Author

Robin Stevens

Robin was born in California and grew up in an Oxford college, across the road from the house where Alice in Wonderland lived. She has been making up stories all her life. When she was twelve, her father handed her a copy of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and she realised that she wanted to be either Hercule Poirot or Agatha Christie when she grew up. She spent her teenage years at Cheltenham Ladies' College, reading a lot of murder mysteries and hoping that she'd get the chance to do some detecting herself (she didn't). She went to university, where she studied crime fiction, and then she worked at a children's publisher. Robin is now a full-time author, and her books are both award-winning and bestselling. She lives in Oxford.

Robin Stevens

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Games & activities

Host your own Detective Society Forever party!

To celebrate the last mystery in the bestselling Murder Most Unladylike series, we’ve got all you need to throw your own – socially distanced, of course – Detective Society Forever party.
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Inspiration

Robin Stevens: 'It matters desperately to me that Daisy is queer'

Avid Murder Most Unladylike fans will already know that in Death in the Spotlight Detective Daisy Wells has her first crush – and it’s on a girl. Here, Robin reveals what it meant to her to write a gay character, while Pride in Publishing’s Charlie Morris, LGBTQ+ activist, describes what this moment means for queer readers everywhere.
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Games & activities

Dress up as a detective from Murder Most Unladylike

Have you always dreamed of being a real-life super sleuth? Then why not try this fun DIY costume and dress up as detectives Daisy or Hazel from Murder Most Unladylike, the crime-busting detective duo.

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