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(0)Carola Dunn
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Belgrave House
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English
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Two novellas: "A Match for the Season"--Lady Cecily has snared the heir to a dukedom, but it's his cousin, a mere doctor, who makes her heart beat faster; "He Stoops to Conquer," previously published as "The Christmas Party"--Lord Rusholme tries to win Prudence, an actress playing in She Stoops to Conquer for his father's Christmas house party, by taking the role of the oafish Tony Lumpkin. Novellas originally published in Zebra collections A WINTER...
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English
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The day after collecting donations, elderly widow Eleanor Trewynn and the vicar's wife find the dead body of a longhaired, scruffy-looking youth hidden in the stockroom of the charity shop. Then they discover that some donated jewelry thought to be fake is actually very real, very expensive, and the haul from a violent robbery in London. Making matters more complex, the corpse found in the storeroom is apparently not one of the robbers.
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Daisy Dalrymple mysteries volume 12
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English
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One morning in April 1924, the Honorable 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
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Daisy Dalrymple mysteries volume 23
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English
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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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English
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"It's the early 1920s in England - the country is still recovering from the Great War and undergoing rapid social changes that many are not quite ready to accept. During this heady and tumultuous time, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple, the daughter of a Viscount, makes a decision shocking to her class: rather than be supported by her relations, she will earn her own living as a writer. Landing an assignment for Town & Country magazine for a series of...
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English
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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 2
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
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In this second installment of Carola Dunn's cozy mystery series set in 1923 England, plucky Daisy Dalrymple embarks on another assignment for Town and Country magazine and discovers that daffodil bulbs aren't all that's buried in a country estate's flower bed.
The merest hint of spring has arrived in Cheshire, and so has Daisy Dalrymple. The feisty flapper is a breath of fresh air to the occupants of gloomy Occles Hall, among them her former
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Daisy Dalrymple mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
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In the third installment of Carola Dunn’s cozy mystery series, Daisy Dalrymple is up to her fashionable bob in temperamental artists—one of whom is a cunning killer.
With dashing Scotland Yard Inspector Alec Fletcher at her side, Daisy is enjoying a delightful performance of Verdi’s Requiem, featuring her neighbor Muriel Westlea’s celebrated sister, Bettina. But when all that emerges from the doomed diva’s vocal chords is a dying
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Cornish mysteries (Carola Dunn) volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
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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.
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Daisy Dalrymple mysteries volume 22
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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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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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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"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...
18) Gunpowder plot
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St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
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Series
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
c2011
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English
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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, compelling Daisy to investigate other members of his household.
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Cornish mysteries (Carola Dunn) volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
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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...