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England, 1923: The Honorable Daisy Dalrymple attends a performance of Verdi's Requiem with Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard. The tickets were 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 disrupted when, during the performance, Bettina falls dead on stage poisoned with cyanide. While it's quickly determined that Bettina's...
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"It's Spring 1923, and love is in bloom -- though not for long. The Honourable Daisy Dalrymple has been enlisted by her childhood friend to recover his missing sweetheart. Miss Gloria Arbuckle, daughter of an American millionaire, has been abducted by kidnappers. Strictly forbidden to contact the police by Gloria's distraught father, Daisy must resist the temptation to bring her occasional collaborator, Scotland Yard's Detective Chief Inspector Alec...
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It is the spring of 1923 and the Honorable 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 Bretton. 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 leaves the...
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Daisy Dalrymple mysteries volume 22
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Minotaur Books
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2015.
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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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"It's December 1923, and the formidable Dowager Viscountess Dalrymple has decreed that for Christmas the family will all gather at Brockdene in Cornwall at the invitation of Lord Westmoor. So her daughter, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher, and Daisy's husband, Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard, must spend their Christmas holiday trapped in an ancestral estate with a rich history of lore, ghost stories, rumors of hidden...
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"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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