Carola Dunn
Author
Series
Cornish mysteries (Carola Dunn) volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
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.
10) Black ship
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
In 1925, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher, her husband, Alec Fletcher (a Scotland Yard Detective) and their new twin infant children inherit and move to a new, larger house on the outskirts of London proper, in a stage of slight disrepair (thanks to an aged, now deceased, uncle). Set in a small circle of houses and a communal garden, it seems a near idyllic setting. That is until a dead body turns up half-hidden under the bushes of the communal...
11) Sheer folly
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
1926. Daisy and her friend Lucy are at a stately home reputed to have the best grotto in the country, for research on their architectural book. As long-held secrets and resentments threaten to explode, even Daisy couldn't predict the deadly events to come.
Author
Series
Cornish mysteries (Carola Dunn) volume 4
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"After many years working around the world for an international charity in the late 1960s, Eleanor Trewynn has retired to the relative quiet of a small town in Cornwall. But her quiet life is short-lived when, due to her experience, the Commonwealth Relations Office reaches out to her to assist in a secret conference that is to take place in a small hotel outside the historical village of Tintagel. Meanwhile, her niece, Detective Sargent Megan Pencarrow,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
April 1928. Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher is visited in London by her young cousins, and 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. When Mrs. Gilpin goes off to the ladies' room and fails to return, Daisy finds the body of another woman dressed in a nanny's uniform. Meanwhile the cousins spot Mrs. Gilpin chasing after yet another...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
As DCI Alec Fletcher investigates the murders of three men who were in the same Army unit during World War I, his wife, Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher, is off visiting their daughter at school. But after a teacher is found dead, Daisy is once again in the thick ...
16) Gone West
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
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.
17) Manna from Hades
Author
Series
Cornish mysteries (Carola Dunn) volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"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...