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Daisy Dalrymple mysteries volume 3
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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 22
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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"In England in the late 1920s, The Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher, on a convalescent trip to the countryside, goes to visit three old school friends in the area. The three, all unmarried, have recently bought a house together. They are a part of the generation of "superfluous women"--brought up expecting marriage and a family, but left without any prospects after more than 700,000 British men were killed in the Great War. Daisy and her husband...
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Daisy Dalrymple mysteries volume 2
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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...
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Cornish mysteries (Carola Dunn) volume 2
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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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.
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Daisy Dalrymple mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
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It is the spring of 1923 and the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple is on her way to a stately home in Scotland to research her next article for Town and Country. On board the Flying Scotsman, the famous London-to-Edinburgh train, Daisy meets an old schoolfellow, Anne Breton. Anne, along with all of her relatives, is en route to visit the deathbed of the family scion and notorious miser, Alistair McGowan. As it currently stands, Alistair's will
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Daisy Dalrymple mysteries volume 1
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English
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"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...
7) Gone west
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Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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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.
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Daisy Dalrymple mysteries volume 7
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
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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.
12) The bloody tower
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Daisy Dalrymple mysteries volume 16
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
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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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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...
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Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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May the best man die! July, 1923, and Daisy has been invited by an American magazine to cover the Henley Regatta. But unknown to her, she steps right into a class war between two members of the Oxford rowing team. Cox Horace Bott - a shopkeeper's son and scholar student - has always hated rower Basil DeLancy - younger son of an earl and all-round cad and bully. And after a particularly brutal public humiliation by DeLancy, Bott swears revenge - so...
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Daisy Dalrymple mysteries volume 23
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A casual outing to the Crystal Palace in London takes a mysterious and murderous turn in the latest mystery in Carola Dunn's beloved Daisy Dalrymple series. April 1928: Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher is visited in London by her young cousins. On the list of must-see sites is the Crystal Palace. Discovering that her children's nanny, Nanny Gilpin, has never seen the Palace, Daisy decides to make a day of it--bringing her cousins, her 3-year-old twins, her...
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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.
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