Wells and Wong Mystery Books in Order
Part ofRobin Stevens Books in OrderThis page lists the Wells and Wong mysteries by Robin Stevens in order, with summaries, background on Daisy and Hazel’s adventures, and where to start.
Last updated: December 22, 2025
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Publication Order
11 books
Death Sets Sail
by Robin Stevens
2020
On a cruise along the Nile, Daisy and Hazel find themselves sharing a ship with a spiritualist society obsessed with ancient Egypt. When the group’s formidable leader is stabbed in her cabin, the friends confront fanatics, family loyalties and rising danger in their hardest case yet.
Top Marks for Murder
by Robin Stevens
2019
Returning to Deepdean for the school’s fiftieth anniversary weekend, Daisy and Hazel find old alliances shattered and a glamorous new girl in charge. After they witness a crime in the nearby woods, buried grudges and visiting parents turn the celebrations into a dangerous puzzle.
Death in the Spotlight
by Robin Stevens
2018
To keep them out of trouble, Daisy and Hazel are sent to help at the Rue Theatre in London, joining a production of Romeo and Juliet. When backstage pranks turn vicious and a star is found dead, they must untangle rivalries and secrets before the curtain rises again.
A Spoonful of Murder
by Robin Stevens
2018
After Hazel’s beloved grandfather dies, she and Daisy journey to Hong Kong to stay with Hazel’s family. A new baby brother, tense relatives and bustling streets are overwhelming enough, until a shocking death makes Hazel the prime suspect and forces the friends to face gangs and betrayal.
Cream Buns and Crime
by Robin Stevens
2017
This companion volume opens Hazel’s casebook to extra adventures, including the Deepdean Vampire and the Detective Society’s earliest investigations. Mixed with stories are detective tips, reading lists and puzzles, giving readers everything they need to start sleuthing for themselves.
Mistletoe and Murder
by Robin Stevens
2016
Spending Christmas in snowy Cambridge, Daisy and Hazel expect cosy teas and carols, not death on a college staircase. When a supposed accident reveals a chilling plot, they juggle rival detectives, tangled alibis and family tensions to stop a killer before Christmas Day.
Jolly Foul Play
by Robin Stevens
2016
Back at Deepdean, a new Head Girl and her prefects rule the school by fear until Bonfire Night ends with a body on the sports field. Surrounded by bullies, rumours and anonymous notes, the Detective Society must decide who to trust before another girl gets hurt.
Poison Is Not Polite
by Robin Stevens
2015
During Daisy’s birthday weekend at her family home, a lavish tea party turns sour when a guest collapses from suspected poison. Trapped by storms inside crumbling Fallingford, Daisy and Hazel must sift through secrets, feuds and hidden motives before the murderer strikes again.
First Class Murder
by Robin Stevens
2015
Daisy and Hazel are supposed to be on a relaxing trip across Europe aboard the glamorous Orient Express. When a wealthy passenger is found dead in her locked cabin and her ruby necklace disappears, the girls race through crowded carriages to uncover a killer.
Arsenic for Tea / Poison is Not Polite
by Robin Stevens
2015
Murder Most Unladylike / Murder is Bad Manners
by Robin Stevens
2014
At Deepdean School for Girls in 1930s England, Hazel Wong stumbles on her science teacher’s body, only for it to vanish. With glamorous best friend Daisy Wells, she forms the Detective Society to prove a murder happened and unmask the killer.
Series background & context
The Wells and Wong mysteries follow Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong, two schoolgirls in 1930s England who set up their own Detective Society. The series begins at Deepdean School for Girls, where Hazel finds a teacher's body in Murder Most Unladylike and Daisy insists they are the only ones clever enough to see that a murder has taken place.
Deepdean is the heart of the early books: a boarding school of dormitories, games lessons and strict mistresses, but also of bunbreaks, midnight feasts and fierce friendships. Daisy is bold, entitled and often reckless, used to giving orders and being believed. Hazel, who has come from Hong Kong to study in England, is quieter and more observant, recording each case carefully in her notebook. Most of the stories are told in Hazel's voice, which lets readers see both Daisy's brilliance and her blind spots.
As the series develops, the girls' cases carry them far beyond school. The second adventure takes them to Fallingford, Daisy's crumbling country house, for a poisonous birthday tea. Later they board the Orient Express in First Class Murder, spend a snowbound Christmas among Cambridge colleges in Mistletoe and Murder, and return with Hazel to Hong Kong in A Spoonful of Murder. By the final novel, Death Sets Sail, the Detective Society is following clues along the Nile, in a story that nods to the classic riverboat mysteries Stevens loves.
Each book is built around a tightly clued puzzle: a locked room, a missing heirloom, a sinister society or a death that looks like an accident until the girls look closer. At the same time the series traces Daisy and Hazel's changing friendship as they grow older, make new allies and rivals, and come up against the limits of their own assumptions. Questions of class, race, gender and empire are never the headline, but they shape who is listened to, who is dismissed and who gets blamed.
Shorter adventures slot around the main novels. Collections such as Cream Buns and Crime and Once Upon a Crime gather extra cases, some narrated by side characters like Alexander, George or Hazel's younger sister May. Mini-mysteries set at Deepdean, in London and at the seaside fill in quieter moments between the big titles and hint at the coming shadow of war.
Taken together, the Wells and Wong books feel like stepping into a 1930s boarding school story that has been quietly rewired as a murder club: cosy on the surface, but full of sharp observations, coded notes, clues, and the understanding that two determined girls can change far more than they are supposed to.
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