![]() ![]() There's a doddery butler, a cheery maid and a cook who makes sure there's always plenty of food on hand when the young people fancy a bunbreak (they find they can't help using boarding school expressions at home, especially when two other girls from their dorm come to visit). So far, so normal: it's April 1935 and the two thirteen-year-old girls have lots of fun wandering around the shabby old house with its rambling corridors, decrepit tree-house and nearly-secret staircases. In this, the second volume, Daisy has invited Hazel to spend the Easter holidays with her family. But Hazel Wong and Daisy Wells, heroines of this delightful detective series, are just ordinary schoolgirls who enjoy solving puzzles and mysteries and who somehow end up right at the centre of the occasional deadly drama. Others are gifted – or burdened – with extraordinary skills, and a few are so intellectual they can barely relate to the people around them. ![]() Some detectives have a dark and sorrowful past. ![]() Of course, in the best tradition of English country mansions, it's not long before the two girls are called upon to solve a murder. Summary: Hazel Wong is staying with her best friend (and President of the Wells and Wong Detective Society) at Fallingford. ![]()
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