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The Winter Garden Mystery (Daisy Dalrymple #2)
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Carola Dunn
In this second installment of Carola Dunn's stylish and cozy mystery series set in 1923 England, plucky Daisy Dalrymple embarks on another assignment for Town and Country magazine and discovers that daffodil bulbs aren't all that's buried in a country estate's flower bed.
The merest hint of spring has arrived in Cheshire, and so has Daisy Dalrymple. The feisty flapper is a
...moreMass Market Paperback, 256 pages
Published
March 6th 2001
(first published May 1st 1995)
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The Honorable Daisy Dalyrymple is visiting an old school chum while writing about her ancestral home when a body is discovered in the garden. Although the local police are happy to pin the housemaid's murder on her young foreign swain, Daisy has doubts. She calls in her childhood friend Philip Petrie and her new friend, Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard, to help her investigate. Who killed Grace? Was it the beautiful but spineless heir who had gotten her pregnant? His best friend, the jealous ...more
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The Daisy Dalrymple mysteries came to my attention around a year ago and I kept wanting to read them – I love mysteries set in the 1920s. But I could never find the first few books in the series and I didn’t know if they could be read out of order.
I finally got my hands on The Winter Garden Mystery – the second book in the series – and I really enjoyed every single minute. Before I get to the plot I’ll just mention that it is a shame that I didn...more
The Daisy Dalrymple mysteries came to my attention around a year ago and I kept wanting to read them – I love mysteries set in the 1920s. But I could never find the first few books in the series and I didn’t know if they could be read out of order.
I finally got my hands on The Winter Garden Mystery – the second book in the series – and I really enjoyed every single minute. Before I get to the plot I’ll just mention that it is a shame that I didn...more
The Winter Garden Mystery is not as good as the first installment, Death at Wentwater Court, but it's not so much criticism as it is praise for how good the first book was. All the same it is still a very enjoyable read and reminded me why I have such a fondness for the classic English country house mysteries. The standout aspect is definitely Carola Dunn's incredible talent of making the reader feel like they're in the 1920s with deft and subtle touches; everything from the language and manners...more
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3-3.5 stars
The 2nd Daisy Dalrymple has Daisy off to Occles House, where a sporty schoolchum, Bobbie (Roberta) lives with her brother Sebastian, her horror of a mother Lady Valeria, and her dairy-occupied father. Lady Valeria runs the small village, Occleswich, like an iron-maiden. And she coddles Sebastian, keeping him at her side and away from would-be maidens who'd just love to be Mrs. Sebastian (Lady Sebastian in the near future). Oh, and Sebastian is a looker - almost a Greek god...more
The 2nd Daisy Dalrymple has Daisy off to Occles House, where a sporty schoolchum, Bobbie (Roberta) lives with her brother Sebastian, her horror of a mother Lady Valeria, and her dairy-occupied father. Lady Valeria runs the small village, Occleswich, like an iron-maiden. And she coddles Sebastian, keeping him at her side and away from would-be maidens who'd just love to be Mrs. Sebastian (Lady Sebastian in the near future). Oh, and Sebastian is a looker - almost a Greek god...more
The Honorable Daisy Dalyrmple is the daughter of a peer. In this time between the wars, she earns her own living and an emancipated act that brings both admiration and censure for a lady of her class. She works as a writer for th magazine and writes about the great old houses of England.
She goes to the home of one of her schoolgirl friends, a hearty sporty girl named Bobbie. What she found was a household dominated by the demanding and snobbish Lady Valeria. As she goes about h...more
She goes to the home of one of her schoolgirl friends, a hearty sporty girl named Bobbie. What she found was a household dominated by the demanding and snobbish Lady Valeria. As she goes about h...more
As a fan of Dorothy L Sayers and Margery Allingham, I quite enjoyed this mystery set in the Golden Age period, with an aristocratic magazine reporter, Daisy Dalrymple, as heroine. It's a very light quick read. I would read more of Daisy's adventures in the future. I don't think much of the cover, which looks as if it is a children's book!
This was an entertaining cozy murder mystery set just after the first world war. I liked the sense of period (no idea if it was authentic but it's certainly believable). The characters were all well developed including a real battle-axe of a mother who I think was my favourite character in the whole book. I think it must be very hard to describe an unpleasant character but still have the reader fairly sympathetic to her (or him) but Carola Dunn pulls it off. The plot was also good but it was...more
It was an entertaining piece of fluff that I´ve been reading over the last couple of days. There´s nothing shocking or groundbreaking, it´s just a nice little standard murder mystery, but sometimes, this is all you want for reading material, and for what it is, it´s pretty good.
It´s set just after the first world war, and is part of a Daisy Dalrymple series. She´s an upper class spiffing, good egg, what-oh old boy kind of girl, who is working as a writer for Town and Country Magazine...more
It´s set just after the first world war, and is part of a Daisy Dalrymple series. She´s an upper class spiffing, good egg, what-oh old boy kind of girl, who is working as a writer for Town and Country Magazine...more
Wherever Daisy goes death is sure to follow. This time she's off to Cheshire and Occles Hall, which thanks to her old school chum, Bobbie Parslow, she has been able to wrangle an invite. Bobbie's mother, Lady Valeria, is notoriously bad tempered and also very protective of her unnaturally good looking son, Sebastian. In fact, the first thing that Daisy hears upon arriving in the picture postcard perfect village of Occleswich is the raging feud between Lady Valeria and Stan Moss, the local car me...more
The first book of this series was pretty awful, so I don't really have a good excuse for reading the second one. I just like the 1920s period, so I wanted to give Daisy a second chance. It was actually worth it. The second book was a vast improvement. Instead of just lining up her characters and giving each a vague description, Dunn actually allows things to develop in a somewhat natural style. The mystery was better explained, although it was still somewhat obvious where things were going....more
Another in this series.
They are light. Nothing serious. But I like them.
A maid disappeared. They found her some time later in the winter garden.
Our heroine, Daisy, is writing an article about another country house. Here, she has an old schoolmate and they aren't used to independent women. And she encourages her schoolmate and her brother to become independent.
She also encourages Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher to investigate the death of the maid s...more
They are light. Nothing serious. But I like them.
A maid disappeared. They found her some time later in the winter garden.
Our heroine, Daisy, is writing an article about another country house. Here, she has an old schoolmate and they aren't used to independent women. And she encourages her schoolmate and her brother to become independent.
She also encourages Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher to investigate the death of the maid s...more
In this second book of the series, 1920s amateur sleuth Daisy Dalrymple stumbles across a body in the garden while doing a magazine profile of a wealthy family, and stirs up a whole lot of trouble. She is ably abetted in solving the crime by Scotland Yard detective Alec Fletcher. Daisy is a charming, bold, empathetic protagonist, the mystery is well handled, and the bit characters are nicely fleshed out. Looking forward to the next one!
I picked this up the other night because I was wanting a mystery and it's set during the 1920s, probably my favorite historical era. It was just okay - a quick read for a lazy weekend. Although some of the historical details were interesting, the story wasn't too compelling and there were modern sensibilities that seemed out of place.
The book was fine. A light quick mystery. Just so many funny personal things about the book itself. First, the author's name. Second that there is a engaged woman, who's nickname for her fiance is Dodo. And third that it was published on my birthday. Don't plan on reading anything else by her.
The Honourable Daisy Dalrymple is at it again as she visits another country house, Occles Hall, to write an article for her magazine.
She is not welcomed by Lady Valeria Parslow and when she is present when a body is discovered in a flower bed in the Winter Garden, she most definitely becomes persona non grata.
However, she calls in her good friend Alec Fletcher from Scotland Yard when the local constabulary seem to be making little progress and, against his better wishes, ...more
She is not welcomed by Lady Valeria Parslow and when she is present when a body is discovered in a flower bed in the Winter Garden, she most definitely becomes persona non grata.
However, she calls in her good friend Alec Fletcher from Scotland Yard when the local constabulary seem to be making little progress and, against his better wishes, ...more
I KNEW if I started nearer the beginning of this series I'd like it more...and I did. I enjoyed the characters more, the 1920's british slang and other language was more understandable, overall just a lot more fun to read. :)
Loved this one as well. Well written, fast-paced and highly entertaining.
I'm thoroughly enjoying the budding relationship between Daisy and Alec and feel it's progressing at a natural rate; neither too quickly nor too slowly. I also liked Philip much better this time around; I found him to be a bit annoying--although well intentioned--in the first book.
The mystery itself was very well done, and while I'd worked out some bits and pieces in regards to some of the suspects'...more
I'm thoroughly enjoying the budding relationship between Daisy and Alec and feel it's progressing at a natural rate; neither too quickly nor too slowly. I also liked Philip much better this time around; I found him to be a bit annoying--although well intentioned--in the first book.
The mystery itself was very well done, and while I'd worked out some bits and pieces in regards to some of the suspects'...more
The books in this series are highly formulaic, and the beginnings of the stories are quite predictable. But the end tends to be a surprise of some sort, and this particular story did not disappoint. Fun! I'd like to read as many of the audiobooks in this series as my library offers.
I liked this second book in the Daisy Dalrymple series. I thought the mystery was solved a bit too quickly and too conveniently at the end, but I did enjoy the story. (I felt the same way about the first book in the series.) I liked seeing the relationship develop between Daisy and Alec and the secondary characters were well written.
I listened to the audio version with Bernadette Dunne as the narrator. I thought she did a very good job and look forward to listening to other books she has...more
I listened to the audio version with Bernadette Dunne as the narrator. I thought she did a very good job and look forward to listening to other books she has...more
These are fun little mysteries. I like the turn of the century atmosphere. I'll read the next in the series as soon as I can get it!
This is the second in a fun, "cozy", reliably entertaining mystery series, taking place in 1920s England. Lots of fun, as I expected.
Would have given this 4 stars if the POV had been more polished. The midscene POV switches and breaks were annoying.
Enjoyed this drawing room mystery. Characters made me laugh out loud. Love the slang.
A light cozy. While I finished listening, I didn't really care who the murderer was.
This was heaps better than the first, and more in line with the other DD mysteries.
Carla Clark
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This is a cozy mystery. Pretty simple to figure out before hand.
Loretta Adams
marked it as to-read
Enjoyed this just as much as the first book.
Another fine Daisy Dalrymple quick read.
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Carola Dunn is the author of more than 30 Regency romances, as well as 16 mysteries (the Daisy Dalrymple mystery series is set in England in the 1920s). Ms. Dunn was born and grew up in England, where she got a B.A. in Russian and French from Manchester University. She travelled as far as Fiji before returning to settle in California. After 30 years in the US, she says she still sounds as if she a...more
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