Gone West - (Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries) by Carola Dunn (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The Denver Post on Gunpowder Plot In September 1926, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher visits Sybil Sutherby, a school friend now living in Derbyshire as the confidential secretary to a novelist. Suspecting that something is seriously amiss, Sybil has asked Daisy to discretely investigate. Upon arrival, Daisy finds a household of relatives and would-be suitors living off the hospitality of Humphrey Birtwhistle, who had been supporting them through his thriceyearly, pseudonymous Westerns. When he took ill, though, Sybil took over writing them while he recovered, only to see the sales increase. Now, she fears that someone in the household is poisoning Birtwhistle to keep him ill and Sybil writing the better-paying versions.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>Dunn has once again written a charming cozy featuring an intelligent, strong woman. A treat for Daisy's fans as well as those who enjoy Jacqueline Winspear's Maisie Dobbs. -<i>Booklist </i></b> <p/>In September 1926, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher visits Sybil Sutherby, a school friend now living in Derbyshire as the confidential secretary to a novelist. Suspecting that something is seriously amiss, Sybil has asked Daisy to discretely investigate. Upon arrival, Daisy finds a household of relatives and would-be suitors living off the hospitality of Humphrey Birtwhistle, who had been supporting them through his thrice-yearly, pseudonymous Westerns. When he took ill, though, Sybil took over writing them while he recovered, only to see the sales increase. <p/>Now, she fears that someone in the household is poisoning Birtwhistle to keep him ill and Sybil writing the better-paying versions. But before Daisy can even get decently underway, Humphrey Birtwhistle dies under suspicious circumstances and Daisy now faces a death to untangle, a house full of suspects and a Scotland Yard detective husband who is less than pleased at this turn of events, in <i>Gone West</i>.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Dunn has once again written a charming cozy featuring an intelligent, strong woman. A treat for Daisy's fans as well as those who enjoy Jacqueline Winspear's Maisie Dobbs." --<i>Booklist</i> <p/>"Delicious...pleasantly reminiscent of the old-fashioned English mysteries of a bygone era" --<i>The Denver Post on Gunpowder Plot</i> <p/>"Set in 1926, Dunn's latest enjoyable Daisy Dalrymple mystery will please fans of traditional English whodunnits...The aristocratic but very modern Daisy makes a fordmidable amateur sleuth." --<i>Publishers Weekly on Anthem for Doomed Youth</i> <p/>"Dunn writes enchantingly of 1920s England: its period accoutrements of cars, cocktails, and the always delightful Daisy." --<i>Mystery Scene on Sheer Folly</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>CAROLA DUNN is the author of many previous mysteries featuring Daisy Dalrymple, including <i>Sheer Folly</i>, <i>Gone West </i>and<i> Heirs to the Body, </i>as well as numerous historical novels. Born and raised in England, she lives in Eugene, Oregon.
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