Carola Dunn
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
258 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1924, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher is off on a summer holiday by the sea with her step-daughter Belinda, Belinda's chum Deva, and Daisy's husband, Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard. Daisy is anticipating a relaxing, non-dramatic holiday. But Daisy doesn't have that kind of luck. The Fletcher's simple picnic is interrupted by the discovery of a broken body at the foot of the cliff—that of a local...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Seething resentments, well-kept family secrets, and a savage murder set the stage for Christmas in Cornwall in this cozy holiday installment of the Daisy Dalrymple mysteries. In December 1923, the formidable Dowager Viscountess Dalrymple has decided that for Christmas the family will all gather at Brockdene in Cornwall at the invitation of Lord Westmoor. Her daughter-Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher-is somewhat less than pleased but yields to the demands...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
259 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In early 1925, the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher-recent mother of twins-resumes her journalistic career by agreeing to write a piece about the Tower of London-the Bloody Tower-for an American magazine. Invited to observe the centuries-old ritual Ceremony of the Keys, she's spending the night (her first time away from her babies) since the complex is locked and guarded, and the high walls are surrounded by a disused moat. Having been given a tour...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 22 cm
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
Valiant hearts volume no.1
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
297 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
243 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The eighth installment in this cozy mystery series features Daisy Dalrymple at the Museum of Natural History, a place of fascination-and murder. In the summer of 1923, the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple makes what should be an uneventful research trip to the Museum of Natural History quite an eventful day-with her nephew Derek and her soon-to-be stepdaughter Belinda in tow. But as she interviews the various curators for her article on the museums of London,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
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,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"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 step-daughter Belinda, the nurserymaid, and Nanny Gilpin. Yet this ordinary outing goes wrong when Mrs. Gilpin goes off to the ladies' room and fails to return....
Author
Series
Daisy Dalrymple mystery volume 21
Language
English
Formats
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...
10) Gone west
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
415 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
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-- which may be poisoning.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In late 1926, the newly married Daisy Dalrymple and Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard take an ocean voyage to America for their honeymoon. Daisy and Alec are accompanied by Daisy's childhood friend Phillip Petrie, his wife, Gloria, and Gloria's father, American millionaire industrialist Caleb P. Arbuckle, and all are looking forward to a pleasant, uneventful trip. But at the last minute they are joined by Arbuckle's new friend,...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
While out on a walk, Eleanor Trewynn, her niece Megan, and her neighbor Nick spot a young, half-drowned Indian man floating in the water. Delirious and concussed, he utters a cryptic message about his family being trapped in a cave and his mother dying. The young man, unconscious and unable to help, is whisked away to a hospital while a desperate effort is mounted find the missing family in time. The local police inspector presumes that they are refugees...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Looking forward to a quiet retirement in Cornwall after a lifetime of international travel, widow Eleanor is inadvertently drawn into a murder investigation involving her wrongly accused artist friend and her detective niece.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1995
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
226 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The body of a pregnant maid is discovered on the grounds of an English manor and police accuse the gardener of killing her. Fortunately, Town and Country reporter Daisy Delrimple is around to clear the man's name and find the real killer. By the author of Death at Wentwater Court.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In March of 1926, Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher and her friend and collaborator, Lady Lucy Gerald, head off for several days to a stately home reputed to have the best grotto in the country. Working on a book of architectural follies, they plan to research and photograph it. Leaving her husband and young twins behind, Daisy is expecting a productive weekend at Appsworth Hall, with the only potential difficulty being keeping Lucy from offending the current...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
One morning in April 1924, The Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher finds herself in a most unenviable position. Despite her best attempts to elude the inevitable, she must face her darkest fears and with all strength and courage she can muster, must confront the one person she has tried hardest to avoid - the dentist. But upon arriving for her appointment, she finds the waiting room deserted and adjoining examination room locked with no hint of either...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
305 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"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...