Author: Carola DunnPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312151756
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Murder On The Flying Scotsman.
Murder Aboard the Flying Scotsman
Author: Lee StraussPublisher:
ISBN: 9781774090077
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
The Ginger Gold Mystery series is set in 1920s England. If you're a fan of historical 20th-century authors such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers, or contemporary authors like Rhys Bowen and Frances Brody, you're sure to like Ginger Gold!
Death At Wentwater Court
Author: Carola DunnPublisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 1466820616
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
In a series debut from Carola Dunn that is sure to delight fans of the classic British cozy mystery, Death at Wentwater Court brings readers old and new back to the "golden age" of mystery. 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 Honorable 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 articles on country manor houses, she travels to Wentwater Court in early January 1923 to begin research on her first piece. But all is not well there when she arrives. Lord Wentwater's young wife has become the center of a storm of jealousy, animosity, and, possibly, some not-unwanted amorous attention, which has disrupted the peace of the bucolic country household. Still, this is as nothing compared to the trouble that ensues when one of the holiday guests drowns in a tragic early-morning skating accident. Especially when Daisy discovers that his death was no accident....
The Winter Garden Mystery
Author: Carola DunnPublisher: Kensington Books
ISBN: 9781575667515
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
While on assignment at gloomy Occles Hall, which is under the charge of the autocratic Lady Valeria, Daisy Dalrymple discovers the body of a missing parlor maid buried in the garden and must unearth a killer before she meets the same fate. Reprint.
The Case of the Murdered Muckraker
Author: Carola DunnPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312272847
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
In late 1923, the newly married Honourable Daisy Dalrymple and her husband, Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard, come to New York on their honeymoon. But it isn't all relaxation when murder crosses their path in the form of a deceased journalist. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Requiem For A Mezzo
Author: Carola DunnPublisher: Kensington Books
ISBN: 9780758227324
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Daisy Dalrymple is up to her fashionable bob in a murder case in bohemian post World War I Chelsea. When an opera diva dies during a performance of Verdi's "Requiem", Daisy and Scotland Yard Inspector Alec Fletcher soon discover the singer had her share of adversaries. Did one of them poison the acclaimed mezzo soprano?
Damsel in Distress
Author: Carola DunnPublisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 1429931434
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
It's Spring 1923 and love is in bloom as the Honourable Phillip Petrie finds himself totally smitten with Miss Gloria Arbuckle, daughter of an American millionaire. But before the enthusiastic suitor can pop the question, his beloved is abducted by kidnappers. As Gloria's distraught father begins assembling the ransom, Phillip enlists his childhood friend, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple to help him recover his missing sweetheart. Strictly forbidden to contact the police, Daisy must resist the temptation to bring her occasional collaborator Scotland Yard's Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher into the case. But as she closes in on the abductors' rural hideway, she begins to suspect that Gloria isn't the only fair damsel whose life hangs in the balance...
Mystery Women, Volume Three (Revised)
Author: Colleen BarnettPublisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1615950109
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1090
Book Description
Like other fictional characters, female sleuths may live in the past or the future. They may represent current times with some level of reality or shape their settings to suit an agenda. There are audiences for both realism and escapism in the mystery novel. It is interesting, however, to compare the fictional world of the mystery sleuth with the world in which readers live. Of course, mystery readers do not share one simplistic world. They live in urban, suburban, and rural areas, as do the female heroines in the books they read. They may choose a book because it has a familiar background or because it takes them to places they long to visit. Readers may be rich or poor; young or old; conservative or liberal. So are the heroines. What incredible choices there are today in mystery series! This three-volume encyclopedia of women characters in the mystery novel is like a gigantic menu. Like a menu, the descriptions of the items that are provided are subjective. Volume 3 of Mystery Women as currently updated adds an additional 42 sleuths to the 500 plus who were covered in the initial Volume 3. These are more recently discovered sleuths who were introduced during the period from January 1, 1990 to December 31, 1999. This more than doubles the number of sleuths introduced in the 1980s (298 of whom were covered in Volume 2) and easily exceeded the 347 series (and some outstanding individuals) described in Volume 1, which covered a 130-year period from 1860-1979. It also includes updates on those individuals covered in the first edition; changes in status, short reviews of books published since the first edition through December 31, 2008.
Mistletoe and Murder
Author: Carola DunnPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312287757
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Traveling with her family to an old Cornish estate at Christmastime, writer Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher learns of the estate's lore, ghost stories, and resentments before discovering that a murderer is among her party.
THE MURDER OF DEVON STONE
Author: Marc Derry HasbrouckPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1663261407
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
London, England - 1956 Devon Stone, best-selling author of murder mysteries, has had a target on his back over the years for various reasons. He thought that was now in the distant past. But he was mistaken. A dear friend who had been murdered a few years earlier had suspected that her late husband’s death was more than just an accident. And she was correct. A casual visit to an exhibition of World War II wartime photography triggers the conclusion to a plot that began as that war was coming to an end. A day at the steeplechase races, including a shocking equine occurrence, brings Devon into the crosshairs once again as he learns that a violent and dangerous person thought long-since dead is very much alive. A cold-blooded, sadistic assassin is drawn into the narrative by sheer happenstance. Following a brazen, brutal murder attempt of another of Devon’s friends, he discovers that there is more than one nefarious person on his trail. A turbulent past intertwines with a surprising future. Devon Stone must now step up his game if he hopes to remain alive. And so begins another cat and mouse game...but who is the cat? And who is the mouse?
