Daisy Dalrymple series by Carola Dunn (#2-#15, #17-#22)
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Overview: The hero of the crime novels is the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple, a freelance writer, sometimes known as "Miss Daisy". Dalrymple’s husband is Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher. He tries, unsuccessfully to keep her out of crime investigations. His superiors at the Yard are terrified of her meddling but find it difficult to stop her because of her very high social position.
Genre: Mystery, Detective
2.The Winter Garden Mystery
Plucky Daisy Dalrymple embarks on another assignment, photographing gloomy Occles Hall for Town and Country magazine, and unearths Grace Moss, missing parlor maid. The feisty flapper is a breath of fresh air to the occupants – school chum and wallflower Bobbie Parslow, and thorny Lady Valeria. Can Daisy catch the killer before she pushes up daisies herself?
3.Requiem for a Mezzo
Daisy Dalrymple and Scotland Yard inspector Alec Fletcher enjoy a splendid performance of Verdi’s Requiem, featuring her neighbor’s sister Bettina, until the poisoned singer suddenly breathes her last. The diva was difficult and provoked many enemies – a philandering tenor, a burly Russian bass, and her own turbulent vocal coach husband.
4.Murder on the Flying Scotsman
The Honourable Daisy Dalrymple heads on the Flying Scotsman train to Edinburgh for her next 1923 magazine article. Schoolfellow, Anne Breton and her relatives also rush to the deathbed of family scion, miserly Alistair McGowan. His heir, brother Albert, is found murdered aboard. Plus, Belinda, daughter of DCI Alec Fletcher, is a runaway and stowaway.
5.Damsel in Distress
Daisy Dalrymple, magazine writer and heiress, helps her pal Philip Petrie, whose sweetheart Gloria Arbuckle, daughter of a millionaire Yank, is kidnapped in 1923. Strictly forbidden to contact dashing Scotland Yard Inspector Alec Fletcher, she suspects trouble as she closes in on the abductors’ rural hideway.
6.Dead in the Water
Daisy Dalrymple visit relatives with fiancé DCI Alec Fletcher, and cover the 1923 Henley Royal Regatta for an American magazine. But tensions escalate between the Ambrose team coxswain Horace Bott – shopkeeper’s son and scholarship student at Oxford – and rower Basil DeLancey – the son of an Earl and all-round bounder – who keels over and dies mid-race.
7.Styx and Stones
Daisy Dalrymple, accompanied by fiancé Detective Inspector Alec Fletcher, is asked by her brother-in-law to discreetly investigate poison pen letters for local villagers. When the pompous unbearable brother of the local vicar is killed by a stone dropped on his head, gossip has escalated to murder.
8.Rattle His Bones
Daisy Dalrymple interviews curators for her 1923 article on the museums of London. The Museum of Natural History is a jealous hothouse, particularly between Dr Smith Woodward, Keeper of Geology – fossils, and Dr Pettigrew, the Keeper of Mineralogy – gems. Daisy finds Pettigrew dead amid dinosaur bones, and joins fiancé DCI Alec Fletcher on murder.
9.To Davy Jones Below
Daisy Dalrymple and DCI Alec Fletcher honeymoon on an ocean voyage to 1923 America, joined by her friend Phillip Petrie, his wife Gloria, her rich father Caleb Arbuckle, Arbuckle’s new friend Yorkshire millionaire Jethro Gotobed, and Gotobed’s new wife, showgirl Wanda. Beset by suspicious accidents and deaths, Alec seasick, Daisy investigates.
10.The Case of the Murdered Muckraker
Daisy Dalrymple and DCI Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard honeymoon in 1923 America, and work in a bit of business. After Daisy meets her magazine editor Mr Thorwald, she hears a gunshot and sees a man plummet down an elevator shaft. Journalist Otis Carmody had many enemies. Daisy crosses the country and levels of society in her search for the killer.
11.Mistletoe and Murder
Daisy Dalrymple, now wed to DCI Alec Fletcher, spends 1923 Christmas at Cornwall with distant relatives the Nevilles. Missionary Mr Calloway disapproves of the celebration and the family, and dies Xmas Eve at an isolated chapel. The elder daughter wanders the grounds nightly, the younger has fits of rage. Who is the killer?
12.Die Laughing
Newlywed Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher must visit the dentist in 1924. Dr Talmadge is dead in the patient chair, nitrous mask strapped on his face, gas tank turned on full, not the accident of a careless dope fiend. The devastatingly handsome Talmadge didn’t need laughing gas to make his female patients swoon, and his wife Daphne dallied illicitly herself.
13.A Mourning Wedding
Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher and husband Alec attend the wedding of her childhood friend Lucy Fotheringay. But Lucy’s gossip-mongering great-aunt is strangled and Alec cannot revive her uncle in the conservatory. Someone prefers funerals to weddings and must be stopped.
14.Fall of a Philanderer
In the summer of 1924, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher takes a seaside holiday with her new husband DCI Alec, his daughter Belinda, and Belinda’s chum Deva. The local innkeeper is a philanderer, and his broken body is found at the foot of a cliff. Another case of murder for the sleuthing couple.
15.Gunpowder Plot
In the winter of 1924, Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher and husband Alec, Scotland Yard DCI, celebrate Guy Fawkes with a country friend. On the evening before, the overly-demanding Viscount apparently shot himself in his study, after a married woman guest visiting England from Australia.
17.Black Ship
In September 1925, Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher and family of new twins move into a house inherited by husband DCI Alec Fletcher on the outskirts of London, near Hamstead Heath. When a dead body appears under the bushes of the communal garden, Alec is assigned by Scotland Yard, and hears rumors of bootleggers and an international liquor smuggling on black ships.
18.Sheer Folly
In March of 1926, Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher and her friend and collaborator Lucy aka Lady Gerald, visit Appsworth, reputedly the best grotto in the country, for a book of follies – architectural. Tactless Lord Rydal is rumored to be having an affair with one guest and pursuing marriage with another. The grotto then explodes with unlikable Lord Rydal inside.
19.Anthem for Doomed Youth
In the Spring of 1926, three unidentified men are found in shallow graves off the beaten path in Epping Forest outside of London, shot dead through the heart. Scotland Yard assigns DCI Alec Fletcher while his wife Daisy, visiting their daughter at school, finds a teacher dead. Alec learns the victims were in the same WW1 Army company, and more deaths threaten.
20.Gone West
In September 1926, Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher visits Sybil Sutherby, a school friend now secretary to a novelist supporting a house of hangers-on by thrice-yearly Westerns. Sybil took over while Humphrey Birtwhistle was ill, sales increased, and she suspects someone is poisoning him – until he suddenly dies. Daisy investigates.
21.Heirs of the Body
In the late 1920s 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 the family — to Fairacres, the family estate.
22. Superfluous Women
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 Alec—Detective Inspector Alec Fletcher, of Scotland Yard —go for a Sunday lunch with Daisy’s friends, where one of the women mentions a wine cellar below their house, which remains curiously locked, no key to be found. Alec offers to pick the lock, but when he opens the door, what greets them is not a cache of wine, but the stench of a long-dead body.
And with that, what was a pleasant Sunday lunch has taken an unexpected turn. Now Daisy’s three friends are the most obvious suspects in a murder and her husband Alec is a witness, so he can’t officially take over the investigation. So before the local detective, Superintendent Crane, can officially bring charges against her friends, Daisy is determined to use all her resources (Alec) and skills to solve the mystery behind this perplexing locked-room crime.
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