Horizon Information Portal

e-branch

Home

My Account/Renew Loans

Find Magazine Articles & more

Gone West : a Daisy Dalrymple mystery / Carola Dunn.

by Dunn, Carola.

View full image

Minotaur Books, c2012.

Women journalists -- Fiction.

Male authors -- Death -- Fiction.

Police spouses -- Fiction.

Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.

Nineteen twenties -- Fiction.

Suspicion -- Fiction.

England -- Fiction.

Dunn, Carola. Daisy Dalrymple mysteries ; 20.

289 p. ; 22 cm.

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 advances increase. 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.

Historical mystery fiction.

Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.

Horizon Information Portal