Damsel in Distress
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...
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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...
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780312168063 (0312168063)
ASIN: 312168063
Publish date: 1997-09
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Pages no: 234
Edition language: English
Series: Daisy Dalrymple (#5)
Another fun Daisy Dalrymple mystery! In this one, Philip Petrie is in love - with an American auto heiress. But said heiress is kidnapped in the country around Philip's and Daisy's homes. Initially, Philip is taken, too, since he's at the kidnapping site and saw the kidnappers. But when he tries to ...
5th in the Daisy Dalrymple mystery series. Daisy's good friend, the dim but good-hearted Philip Petrie, falls in love with an American heiress...but their romance takes a turn for the tragic when she's kidnapped! The kidnappers warn Philip not to go to the police, so he enlists Daisy instead. A l...
Book 5 was great. I knew in the first few chapters who did it, but it was great to see Daisy and Alec get closer and to see more family members. I look forward to book 6.