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- Superfluous women : a Daisy Dalrymple mystery / by Dunn, Carola.;
Includes bibliographical references."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 Alec--Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher, of Scotland Yard --go for a Sunday lunch with Daisy's friends, where one of the women mentions a wine cellar below their house, which remains curiously locked, no key to be found. Alec offers to pick the lock, but when he opens the door, what greets them is not a cache of wine, but the stench of a long-dead body. And with that, what was a pleasant Sunday lunch has taken an unexpected turn. Now Daisy's three friends are the most obvious suspects in a murder and her husband Alec is a witness, so he can't officially take over the investigation. So before the local detective, Superintendent Underwood, can officially bring charges against her friends, Daisy is determined to use all her resources (Alec) and skills to solve the mystery behind this perplexing locked-room crime"--Provided by publisher.- Subjects: Detective and mystery stories.; Historical fiction.; Mystery fiction.; Dalrymple, Daisy (Fictitious character); Murder; Police spouses;
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- Heirs of the body : a Daisy Dalrymple mystery / by Dunn, Carola.;
"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 the family--to Fairacres, the family estate. In the meantime, Daisy is asked to be the family's representative at the lawyer's interviews with the claimants. Those four are a hotelier from Scarborough, a diamond merchant from South Africa, a young mixed-raced boy from Trinidad, and a sailor from Jamaica. However, according to his very pregnant wife, the sailor has gone missing. Daisy and Alec must uncover a conspiracy if they are going to stop the killing in the latest from the accomplished master of the genre, Carola Dunn"--Provided by publisher.- Subjects: Detective and mystery stories.; Mystery fiction.; Aristocracy (Social class); Conspiracies; Dalrymple, Daisy (Fictitious character);
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- Fall of a philanderer / by Dunn, Carola;
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- Subjects: Detective and mystery stories; Dalrymple, Daisy (Fictitious character); Hotelkeepers; Women journalists; Seaside resorts; Police spouses; Mystery fiction;
- © 2005., St. Martin's Press,
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- Mistletoe and murder / by Dunn, Carola;
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- Subjects: Detective and mystery stories; Dalrymple, Daisy (Fictitious character); Women journalists; Haunted houses; Mystery fiction; Historical fiction; Christmas stories;
- © 2002., St. Martin's Minotaur,
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