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Daisy Dalrymple mysteries volume 3
Language
English
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In March 1923, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple takes a break from her writing to attend a performance of Verdi's Requiem at the Albert Hall with Scotland Yard's Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher. The tickets are a gift from Muriel Westlea, Daisy's neighbor and the sister of Bettina Westlea, who will be singing the mezzo role. What should be a pleasant afternoon is quickly disrupted when, during the performance, Bettina falls dead on
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Daisy Dalrymple mysteries volume 2
Language
English
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In England, 1923, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple has made a decision that, while shocking to her class, is in perfect keeping with the spirit of the times. Rather than live with relatives until she marries, she has undertaken to earn her own living with her writing. Her series of articles on country manor houses has proven popular with the readers of Town and Country and in February she travels to Occles Hall to research her latest piece.
What she...
Author
Series
Daisy Dalrymple mysteries volume 7
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
British upper-crust sleuth The Honorable Daisy Dalrymple investigates a rash of poison pen letters sent to people in her brother-in-law's village. The mystery escalates when Daisy stumbles on a murder.
Author
Series
Cornish mysteries (Carola Dunn) volume 2
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
In this cozy Cornish mystery, recently retired widow Eleanor Trewynn sets out to clear her friend Nick of the murder of neighbor artist Geoffrey Clark. She soon learns that Nick is far from the only one with a compelling motive for murder.
Author
Series
Daisy Dalrymple mysteries volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"It's the early 1920s in England - the country is still recovering from the Great War and undergoing rapid social changes that many are not quite ready to accept. During this heady and tumultuous time, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple, the daughter of a Viscount, makes a decision shocking to her class: rather than be supported by her relations, she will earn her own living as a writer. Landing an assignment for Town & Country magazine for a series of...
9) Gone west
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Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
Visiting a friend in 1926 Derbyshire, Daisy learns that her friend has been ghost-writing a popular novelist's most recent, and more successful, works while the novelist succumbs to a suspicious illness, compelling Daisy to investigate other members of his household.
Author
Series
Daisy Dalrymple mysteries volume 17
Pub. Date
2009, c2008
Language
English
Description
In 1925, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher, her husband, Alec Fletcher (a Scotland Yard Detective) and their new twin infant children inherit and move to a new, larger house on the outskirts of London proper, in a stage of slight disrepair (thanks to an aged, now deceased, uncle). Set in a small circle of houses and a communal garden, it seems a near idyllic setting. That is until a dead body turns up half-hidden under the bushes of the communal...
Author
Series
Cornish mysteries (Carola Dunn) volume 1
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
"Manna from Hades" is a confounding case of daring theft, double-cross, and awily older woman confronted by a case of murder most foul.
Author
Series
Daisy Dalrymple mysteries volume 18
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
1926. Daisy and her friend Lucy are at a stately home reputed to have the best grotto in the country, for research on their architectural book. As long-held secrets and resentments threaten to explode, even Daisy couldn't predict the deadly events to come.
Author
Series
Daisy Dalrymple mysteries volume 21
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"In the late 1920's in England, The Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher is recruited to help her cousin Edgar--i.e. the Lord Dalrymple. About to turn fifty, Lord Dalrymple decides it is time to find out who would be the heir to the viscountcy. With the help of the family lawyer, who advertises Empire-wide, they have come up with four potential claimants. For his fiftieth birthday, Edgar invites those would-be heirs--along with Daisy and the rest of...
Author
Series
Cornish mysteries (Carola Dunn) volume 4
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"After many years working around the world for an international charity in the late 1960s, Eleanor Trewynn has retired to the relative quiet of a small town in Cornwall. But her quiet life is short-lived when, due to her experience, the Commonwealth Relations Office reaches out to her to assist in a secret conference that is to take place in a small hotel outside the historical village of Tintagel. Meanwhile, her niece, Detective Sargent Megan Pencarrow,...
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