Detective Society

“Spoilsport,' said Daisy, and she stuck her tongue out at me.”

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> "*I used to think that nothing could ever change, not really, not with my best friend Daisy and me.  The rest of the world could spin out of true and smash like a Christmas bauble on the floor, but still nothing would be able to touch us.  We were Wells and Wong, after all.  We were the Detective Society, and we always came out on top.*"
> ― Hazel Wong, Death Sets Sail[source]
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**The Wells and Wong Detective Society** is a secret society formed by Daisy Wells.  After reading a lot of classic mystery books by famous authors like Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Margery Allingham, she got inspired and formed the Detective Society, with herself as the President and best friend Hazel Wong as the Vice President.  The society solves different mysteries, from robberies to murders.

## Members

Daisy Wells - President

Hazel Wong - President

Kitty Freebody - Member

Lavinia Temple - Member

Beanie Martineau - Member

Amina El Maghrabi - Member

May Wong - Member

Ping - Member

Ah Lan - Assistant Member

Alexander Arcady - Friend of the Detective Society

George Mukherjee - Friend of the Detective Society

## History

As Hazel notes, the Detective Society only got one case before the murder of Miss Bell. The Case of Lavinia’s Missing Tie, their first ever case, was solved within a day, and can be read as a short story in Cream Buns and Crime.

Their first "proper" case was The Murder of Miss Bell. When Hazel finds Miss Bell's dead body in the school gym, she rushes to inform Daisy, but upon returning to the gym, the body has disappeared. Together, Daisy and Hazel work to solve the murder using a series of clever tactics, and uncovering unexpected secrets along the way. When police officer Inspector Priestley is called to the school, Hazel and Daisy have to rush to solve the case before the murderer can get away. After figuring out who the killer is, they present their theory to him, and while he originally dismisses them as silly schoolgirls, he cannot refuse the concrete evidence they show him.

When the murder in the Wells house was committed, the Detective Society, along with the new honorary members, Kitty Freebody and Beanie Martineau, stepped in to solve the murder.

In the next novel, First Class Murder, the Detective Society team up with Alexander Arcady, a detective their age who has his own society called the Junior Pinkertons, to solve a murder case on the Orient Express. While Daisy was reluctant about working with him, Hazel wanted to partner up with him. Their case intertwines a case being investigated by Lucy Livedon, who is also on board the train, undercover, to try and find a suspect who is carrying secrets regarding Britain's military capabilities and handing them over to German spies. With Alexander's help, Hazel and Daisy eventually solve the murder, and Alexander helps find the spy.

When the Detective Society meets again at Deepdean in Jolly Foul Play, they have to investigate the murder of the head girl. Daisy and Hazel once again team up with Kitty and Beanie, this time introducing a new member, Lavinia Temple, their other dormmate. They work together and investigate the prefects to solve the case. It is also revealed that Hazel has kept in touch with Alexander, and they have become pen pals. Through their letters, Alexander and his best friend and detective associate, George Mukherjee, give Hazel some tips that help her and Daisy solve the case.

In Mistletoe and Murder, they work with the Junior Pinkertons in person again, this time not just Alexander, but also including George. Before the murder, they suspect something suspicious is going on, and make a bet as to which detective society can prove it first. When the murder happens, they work together but are still competitive in finding most of the clues. They solve the murder together, but Hazel was the first to actually figure out who the murderer was (even though it was admittedly mostly a guess), the Junior Pinkertons lost the bet, so they post posters all over Cambridge admitting that they are not the best detective society and request a rematch.

In A Spoonful of Murder the society solve their first case outside of England. When Daisy and Hazel travel to Hong Kong to pay respects to Hazel's grandfather who recently passed, they each face their own challenges. Daisy is faced with the obstacle of finding her way around a country that is foreign to her, where she doesn't speak the language and isn't famous. Meanwhile, Hazel is dealing with a very different dilemma: while mourning her grandfather, she is introduced to a new member of the Wong family: her baby brother, Edward "Teddy" Wong, who has taken her bedroom and maid upon being born. He is now the star of the family, being the first son, and Hazel feels resentment towards him for taking away her maid, Su Li, who was like a mother to her. She is also worried that her father will no longer see reason to give her an education now that he has a son, and pull her out of Deepdean. However, after Teddy is kidnapped and Su Li is murdered, Hazel realizes that she very much does care about him. She and Daisy solve the kidnapping and murder with the help of Hazel’s new maid, Ping, and one of the gardeners, Ah Lan, who join the society as assistant members after the case is solved.

In Death in the Spotlight, Inspector Priestley, for the first time, decides that he will ‘turn a blind eye and deaf ear’ to whatever the Detective Society are doing, because he says that he trusts the girls’ skills.  When Daisy falls ill during the case, the Junior Pinkertons pitch in and help.

The society meets its third Deepdean murder in Top Marks for Murder. Amina, the new girl, provided a vital clue which was a great help to solving the case. Hazel and Amina become friends afterwards, and Daisy tries to hide her affection and admiration for Amina by being haughty.

The society faces its last and most challenging case in Death Sets Sail, when Amina invites Hazel and Daisy to her hometown Egypt. Hazel’s family and the Junior Pinkertons come along, and Amina and May become members of the society. Although the case is solved at the end, the society is faced with irreversible consequences.