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Superfluous Women Carola Dunn

Superfluous Women By Carola Dunn

Superfluous Women by Carola Dunn


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Summary

A pleasant lunch in the country with old friends takes an unexpected turn when a corpse is discovered at the feast.

Superfluous Women Summary

Superfluous Women: A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery by Carola Dunn

The Honorable Daisy Dalrymple-Fletcher is on a convalescent trip in the countryside, visiting old school friends. The three of them, 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 Alec - Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher, of Scotland Yard - are invited for Sunday lunch, where one of the women mentions a wine cellar below the house which remains resolutely locked. Alec picks the lock but when he eventually opens the door, what greets them is not a cache of wine, but the stench of a dead body.

And with that, what was a pleasant Sunday lunch becomes a much darker affair. Now Daisy's three friends are the suspects in a murder and her husband Alec is a witness.. So before the local detective, DI Underwood, can officially bring charges against her friends, Daisy is determined to use all her resources and skills to solve the mystery behind this perplexing locked-room crime.

Critical Praise for The Daisy Dalrymple novels by Carola Dunn
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The period sense remains vivid, the characterizations are excellent, and the mysteries are, if anything, more perplexing than ever. The Oregonian on Rattle His Bones

Styx and Stones is a swift, deeply enjoyable read. While Dunn's influences are many, she ultimately makes this territory her own. The Register-Guard

Reading like an Agatha Christie thriller, Rattle His Bones is a charming look at life after the first World War. Romantic Times

Dunn captures the melting pot of Prohibition-era New York with humorous characterizations and a vivid sense of place, and with careful plotting lays out an enjoyable tale of adventure. Publisher's Weekly on The Case of the Murdered Muckraker

Superfluous Women Reviews

The 22nd entry in the charming 1920s-set series proves that Dunn just keeps getting better * Library Journal *

About Carola Dunn

Carola Dunn is the author of the Daisy Dalrymple mysteries. Born and raised in England, the author now lives in Eugene, Oregon, USA.

Additional information

GOR007133869
9781472122759
1472122755
Superfluous Women: A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery by Carola Dunn
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Little, Brown Book Group
20150702
320
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