This series includes 18 books.
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Book 1Death at Wentwater Court
by Carola Dunn
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During the post-war turbulence of 1920s England, the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple shocks her family by getting a job writing, a job that leads her to Wentwater Court, a manor house full of jealousy and murder.
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Book 2The Winter Garden Mystery: A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery (Dunn, Carola. Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries.)
by Carola Dunn
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The Honorable Daisy Dalrymple, writing about British manor houses, visits Occles Hall and finds it under the charge of the autocratic Lady Valeria, who takes offense when Daisy discovers the body of a pregnant maid buried in the garden.
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Book 3Requiem for a Mezzo
by Carola Dunn
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When the soprano singing the lead role in Verdi's Requiem drops dead of cyanide poisoning during the performance, the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple joins Scotland Yard Detective Inspector Alex Fletcher in searching for the killer among a multitude of possible suspects.
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Book 4Murder on the Flying Scotsman (Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries (Paperback))
by Carola Dunn
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In the spring of 1923, the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple boards the Flying Scotsman train to go to Scotland to research a new article, but when a man is found dead in his compartment, she once again becomes embroiled in a murder investigation.
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Book 5Damsel in Distress: A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery (Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries (Paperback))
by Carola Dunn
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When Philip Petrie's fiance+a7e Gloria, the daughter of an American millionaire, is kidnapped, he turns to Daisy Dalrymple to find the kidnappers and rescue his love from their clutches."
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Book 6Dead in the Water: A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery (Dunn, Carola. Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries.)
by Carola Dunn
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Ah, summer in Henley-on-Thames: The smell of the roses. The excitement of the races. The perfect setting for murder? When Daisy Dalrymple accepts an assignment to cover the Henley Royal Regatta for an American magazine, she steps right into a nasty class war between two members of the Oxford rowing team. Coxswain Horace Bott - a shopkeeper's son and scholarship student - has always resented rower Basil DeLancey - younger son of an Earl and an all-around cad who takes every opportunity to goad and embarrass his impoverished team mate.After a particularly brutal public humiliation, Bott swears revenge, and when DeLancey keels over and dies mid-race, succumbing to a keen blow to the head, it would seem he's made good on his promise. But Daisy isn't convinced. With the help of her fiance, Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard, Daisy dives into a tangled web of jealousies and secrets behind the closed doors of the aristocracy, where appearances are everything, and good breeding just may be hiding a killer intent on keeping Daisy mum forever...
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Book 7Styx and Stones (Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries (Paperback))
by Carola Dunn
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It is August of 1923 and the heat of the summer has turned London into a furnace. The recently engaged Honourable Daisy Dalrymple is invited to lunch by Lord John Frobisher, her brother-in-law, who has come to the city from his small village in Kent to attend to business. The business he's come to attend to, however, is very personal and very serious. It seems someone has been sending him a series of "poison pen" letters threatening to reveal an indiscretion of his youth--a revelation that would damage his marriage and position, and hurt those dearest to him. Unwilling to risk going to the proper authorities, Johnnie wants Daisy to come visit for a few days and see if she can quietly locate the person responsible. With Belinda, her fiance's daughter, in tow, Daisy takes a few days away from her writing career to visit her sister and see what she can uncover. Soon enough it becomes apparent that this seemingly quiet village is a hotbed of intrigue and resentment. Besides her brother-in-law, other prominent residents are being terrorized by this anonymous letter writer, threatened with their most closely held secrets. Before Daisy can make any headway, a murder occurs and it seems clear that the malevolent writer of letters has taken his campaign to a new and deadly level. Now Daisy must ferret out the one responsible before one of her own family becomes the next victim.
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Book 8Rattle His Bones: A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery
by Carola Dunn
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In the summer of 1923, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple makes what should an uneventful research trip to the Museum of Natural History with her nephew Derek and her soon-to-be step-daughter Belinda in tow. But as she interviews the various curators for her article on the museums of London, she soon discovers that the Museum of Natural History is a hothouse of professional rivalry and jealousy, particularly between Dr. Smith Woodward, the Keeper of Geology - responsible for the fossil collection, and Dr. Pettigrew, the Keeper of Minerology - responsible for the Museum's fabulous gem collection. On a later trip, as closing time nears, Daisy hears two voices followed by a tremendous crash and rushes into the next hall to discover Dr. Pettigrew dead - murdered amidst a pile of dinosaur bones. Daisy's fiance, Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard, is assigned to investigate and together they must unravel a most baffling case of missing gems, dispossessed European royalty, professional rivalry and murder most foul.
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Book 9To Davy Jones Below (Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries (Paperback))
by Carola Dunn
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In late 1923, the newly married Daisy Dalrymple and Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard take an ocean voyage to America for their honeymoon.Accompanied by Daisy's childhood friend Phillip Petrie, his wife Gloria, and Gloria's father - American millionaire industrialist Caleb P. Arbuckle, Daisy and Alec are looking forward to a pleasant, uneventful trip.But at the last minute they are joined by Arbuckle's new friend - Yorkshire millionaire Jethro Gotobed and his new wife Wanda, a showgirl whom all but Gotobed are convinced is a golddigger of the worst sort. Then, having barely lifted anchor, the ocean liner is beset by a series of suspicious accidents and deaths.With harsh weather and rough seas putting many - including Alec - out of commission due to seasickness, it soon falls to Daisy to figure out what connection there might be between the seemingly unrelated incidents.Convinced that there's a murderer aboard ship, Daisy must unmask the culprit or culprits before anyone else - especially herself - falls victim. AUTHORBIO: Carola Dunn is the author of nine books featuring Daisy Dalrymple, most recently Rattle His Bones as well as numerous historical novels.Born and raised in England, she lives in Eugene, Oregon.
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Book 10The Case of the Murdered Muckraker: A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery (Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries (Paperback))
by Carola Dunn
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In late 1923, the newly married Daisy Dalrymple and her husband Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard, come to America for a honeymoon visit. In the midst of a pleasure trip, however, both work in a bit of business - Alec travels to Washington, D. C. to consult with the U.S. government, Daisy to New York to meet with her American magazine editor.While in New York, Daisy stays at the famed Chelsea Hotel, which is not only close to the Flatiron Building offices of Abroad magazine, where she'll be meeting with her editor, but home to many of New York's artists and writers. After her late morning meeting, Daisy agrees to accompany her editor, Mr. Thorwald, to lunch but as they are leaving the offices, they hear a gun shot and see a man plummeting down an elevator shaft.The man killed was one of her fellow residents at the Chelsea Hotel, Otis Carmody, who was a journalist with no end of enemies - personal and professional - who would delight in his death.Again in the midst of a murder investigation, Daisy's search for the killer takes her to all levels of society, and even a mad dash across the country itself, as she attempts to solve a puzzle that would baffle even Philo Vance himself.AUTHORBIO: Carola Dunn is the author of ten books featuring Daisy Dalrymple, most recently To Davy Jones Below, as well as numerous historical novels.Born and raised in England, she lives in Eugene, Oregon.
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Book 11Mistletoe And Murder
by Carola Dunn
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In December 1923, Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher yields to the demands of her mother and the needs of her writing career and brings her family to an old Cornish estate for Christmas. The estate, occupied by the poor relations of the ancestral lord, has a rich history of lore, ghost stories, and festering resentmentssome or all of which leaves them all trapped in a house with a corpse and a murderer.
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Book 12Die Laughing (Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries (Paperback))
by Carola Dunn
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In April 1924, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher must face her darkest fears and confront the one person she's tried to avoid-the dentist. But upon arriving for her appointment, she discovers the dentist stone-cold dead. The circumstances of his death are suspicious but everyone seems anxious to write it off as accidental. Once again it falls to the redoubtable Daisy to uncover the truth behind this case of murder most foul.
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Book 13A Mourning Wedding: A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery (Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries (Paperback))
by Carola Dunn
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The inimitable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher and her husband Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher seem to get a reprieve from their sleuthing duties when they are invited to the wedding of their friend, Lucy Fotheringay. Lucy's grandfather is hosting the ceremony at his beautiful estate and so it promises to be a typical affair with hordes of gossipy aunts and other colorful but not necessarily pleasant relatives. Daisy meets all these characters and observes the ensuing familial fraternization with a certain kind of amusing nonchalance. That is, until Lucy's great aunt is found strangled to death in her bed. Lucy, in the meantime, has arranged to meet her betrothed in the conservatory, but when she arrives she finds him trying to revive her uncle, who has died-or has he been murdered? And just like that a normally celebratory occasion turns suspicious. Now Daisy must sift through a throng of relatives-aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents- once wedding guests and now murder suspects. And she must find the killer quickly before another family member becomes a corpse.
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Book 14Fall of a Philanderer (Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries (Paperback))
by Carola Dunn
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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. It seems that a low-rent Don Juan has been busily seducing the local womanfolk and, in a town this small, no secret is kept for long. As is amply illustrated when the Fletcher+s simple picnic is interrupted by the discovery of a broken body at the foot of the cliff-that of the philandering local innkeeper of bad memory. Like Jacqueline Winspear+s much-praised novels about Maisie Dobbs, Carola Dunn vividly evokes the life and times of 1920+s England wrapped in a classic mystery to delight her many fans.
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Book 15Gunpowder Plot: A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery (Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries (Hardcover))
by Carola Dunn
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A magazine assignment takes a murderous turn for that intrepid sleuth, the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher, in this delightful new addition to Carola Dunn's mystery series set in 1920s England... Late autumn in the Cotswolds, and the countryside is a riot of red, yellow, and gold. Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher, six months pregnant and blooming, is delighted to visit Edge Manor, home of her old school friend Gwen Tyndall, to research one of her articles. Since 1606, the Tyndalls have held an annual fete celebrating the defeat of Guy Fawkes' plot against the monarchy. But this year, amid the fireworks and festivities, Gwen's father and a visiting Australian are found dead. It seems that Sir Harold turned the gun on himself after shooting his guest. Sir Harold was a bully with a famously short-fused temper, and many--including his own children--might have secretly wished for his demise. But could the apparent suicide really be murder? Now, as Daisy investigates alongside her husband, Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard, an explosive family secret emerges--one that a trigger-happy killer will do anything to protect... "Fans of the dauntless Daisy will delight in this Anglophilic period mystery." -- Kirkus Reviews "Daisy exhibits her usual common sense and charm." -- Publishers Weekly
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Book 16The Bloody Tower: A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery
by Carola Dunn
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In early 1925, the Honourable 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 of the Crown Jewels, interviewed and observed the Yeoman Warders, and met the Ravenmaster, Daisy has more than enough material for her article and decides to leave as early as possible the next morning to return to her family. But when walking down the stairs, she almost trips over the dead body of one of the Yeoman Warders. That there's something seriously amiss cannot be denied, due to the pike sticking out of his back. With her husband, Scotland Yard DCI Alec Fletcher assigned to resolve the case, Daisy once again finds herself in the middle of a case of murder most foul.
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Book 17Black Ship: A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery (Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries)
by Carola Dunn
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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 garden, rumors of bootleggers, American gangsters, and an international liquor smuggling operation via black ships turn everything upside down. And it's up to Daisy - well, Alec with some help from Daisy - to find out who the dead man is, why he was murdered and who did him in!
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Book 18Sheer Folly: A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery (Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries)
by Carola Dunn
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In March of 1926, Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher and her friend and collaborator Lucy (a.k.a. Lady Gerald) head off for several days at stately home reputed to have the best grotto in the country. Working on a book of follies (architectural), 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 owner, a manufacturer of plumbing products. Alas, it’s not to be quite so simple. At the home, they find themselves faced with a curious assortment of people including the abominable, tactless Lord Rydal, who is rumored to be having an affair with one of the guests while at the same time in ardent and artless pursuit of the hand in marriage of another. When the grotto explodes with Lord Rydal in it, it’s not a question of who would do it—as most who’ve met him would be sorely tempted—but who actually did do it.
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