Death at Wentwater Court
Format: paperback
ISBN:
8601408395679
Publish date: 2009-01-16
Publisher: Robinson
Edition language: English
Series: Daisy Dalrymple (#1)
This reminded me of a lot of the interwar stuff I like reading.Daisy Dalrymple gets caught up in a murder mystery when she goes to photograph a stately home for a magazine in her quest to find a job. While doing this she encounters an interesting detective and finds that everything isn't always str...
This lighthearted Downton Abbey era 1920’s mystery totally charmed me. Daisy Dalrymple comes from a titled family, but after her brother was killed in the Great War and her father died in the flu epidemic their estate passed to a distant relative (shades of Jane Austen!) leaving the remaining female...
Reading this book was pure, unmitigated pleasure. Although it is the first novel of the series, it’s not the first Daisy Dalrymple mystery I’ve read. I have already read several others in no particular order and I have to admit: I enjoyed them all. I love the lead characters, I love the setting – En...
Fun book! I think I've found a new set of enjoyable mysteries to read!The Honorable Daisy Dalrymple is a twenty-something daughter of a viscount, but her father is dead (influenza after WWI) and her brother died serving in the war. Rather than be banished to the dower house, living with her mother a...
I'd probably give this 3.5 stars. It was an easy read, but I didn't get completely into it until the last few chapters, when the pace really picked up. However, the first chapter of the next book was included at the end of this one and I really enjoyed that (and, since it ended on a cliffhanger, I...
13 years ago
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