It is 1925 and Daisy's husband inherits a house from his great uncle. They discover that their new neighbors are wine merchants. One rainy morning the maid finds a body hidden in the bushes. Who is the stranger? How are the neighbors involved? Why did the son take the train to the north? Ho...
Or two and a half stars. I didn't mind the long lead time into the murder, I was enjoying the characters, but I did think the end was rushed and a bit confused, with one character apparently revealled as the murderer but Daisy possibly being called to testify at a different character's trial - o...
Disappointing. I haven't read the Daisy Dalrymple stories for which this author is best known,so can’t compare. This was a perfectly enjoyable lightweight whodunnit – an artist is found murdered and it seems that everyone he knew thinks the world will be a better place without him. Enter our hero...
A pleasant but unremarkable murder mystery set in Cornwall in the 1960s. Eleanor Trewyn is a widow in her sixties who helps to run the LonStar charity shop, and has a habit of getting involved with murders. In this one, her young friend Nick Gresham, an artist, is accused of murdering another a...
3-3.5 starsThe 2nd Daisy Dalrymple has Daisy off to Occles House, where a sporty schoolchum, Bobbie (Roberta) lives with her brother Sebastian, her horror of a mother Lady Valeria, and her dairy-occupied father. Lady Valeria runs the small village, Occleswich, like an iron-maiden. And she coddles...
Phillip Petrie, the amiable younger son of a lord who has set his sights on becoming a common auto mechanic, never expects to fall for the daughter of a visiting American millionaire. No more does he expect her to be kidnapped, and himself with her. They don't want him, though, and he finds himse...
It's the 1920s, and the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple works for her living in London, writing magazine articles while she anticipates her marriage to Scotland Yard inspector Alec Fletcher. This time, she's writing about the Museum of Natural History, and of course, someone gets murdered and a signif...
2 Jan 1923 p 10. Honorable Daisy Dalrymple 25 p 10 "sparkle in her blue eyes" p 177 prefers to work for prestigious Town and Country magazine after her father dies. "A sad loss to the House of Lords. That wretched influenza decimated our ranks" p 23. Her aristocratic position allows her to be ass...
igh Carrick, Viscount Iverbrook returns to England from an extended stay in Jamaica after leanring of the deaths of his brother and sister-in-law from a fever. They left behind a five-year-old son named Peter, who is currently under the guardianship of his maternal aunt Selena Whitton. Hugh is fu...