Gone West, Carola Dunn
Gone West, Carola Dunn
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Gone West
A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery

Author: Carola Dunn

Narrator: Lucy Rayner

Unabridged: 11 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/30/2018

Synopsis

In September 1926, the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher visits Sybil Sutherby, a school friend now living in Derbyshire as the confidential secretary to a novelist. Suspecting that something is seriously amiss, Sybil has asked Daisy to discretely investigate.Upon arrival, Daisy finds a household of relatives and would-be suitors living off the hospitality of Humphrey Birtwhistle, who had been supporting them through his thrice-yearly, pseudonymous Westerns. When he took ill, though, Sybil took over writing them while he recovered, only to see the sales increase. Now, she fears that someone in the household is poisoning Birtwhistle to keep him ill and Sybil writing the better-paying versions. But before Daisy can even get decently underway, Humphrey Birtwhistle dies under suspicious circumstances and Daisy now faces a death to untangle, a house full of suspects, and a Scotland Yard detective husband who is less than pleased at this turn of events.

About Carola Dunn

Carola Dunn is the author of several series of novels, including Regency romances, the Daisy Dalrymple mysteries, the Cornish mysteries, and more than two dozen stand-alone novels.

About Lucy Rayner

Lucy Rayner is an award-winning British actress. Bitten hard by the acting bug whilst performing at the Edinburgh Festival as a teenager, she has gone on to work on both sides of the Atlantic in a number of theater productions and films, many of which have screened at festivals around the world. She loves to tell stories and voice characters in a number of British regional accents and has narrated many wonderful audiobooks. She has a master's degree in history from the University of Edinburgh and is a graduate of the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York City.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kav on December 12, 2019

I love Daisy Dalrymple mysteries and usually give them a 4 star rating (though the Christmas one -- Mistletoe and Murder rated a 5 star for me.) Anyway, Gone West was really slow to start -- a lot of time spent on setting up the background and all the players and the murder didn't happen until about......more

Goodreads review by Gerry on July 11, 2017

Don't invite Daisy Dalrymple to stay at your place for the weekend, for wherever she goes an unexpected death seems to occur! And in 'Gone West' it is no different. She visits Eyrie Farm in Derbyshire at the request of a friend who is in a quandary over something she and the owner of the farm are inv......more

Goodreads review by Hubert on November 29, 2021

Ekscytująca do samego końca......more

Goodreads review by Connie on October 01, 2021

I enjoyed it all the way through to the end which was ridiculously contrived.......more

Goodreads review by C.A. on January 30, 2012

Daisy is at it again. Asked by an old school chum to come for a visit Daisy agrees even though the women were never really close. Sybil, a widow who works as a secetary for a writer, has gradually moved towards actually writing the books when the author gets ill. She worries that her boss, who shoul......more

Quotes

“The wife of a Scotland Yard detective is such a clever sleuth that she’s on the scene before her husband…Daisy’s husband’s superior, taking a dim view of her involvement, sends Alec Fletcher to solve the case. Despite (or because of) plenty of promising suspects, Daisy and Alec have their work cut out for them. Dunn adds another winner to a long string of charming mysteries evocative of the period between the Great Wars.” Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“[In] Dunn’s charming twentieth Daisy Dalrymple mystery…Daisy must tread carefully between her own theories and the official line in a cozy replete with the amenities of English country life.” Publishers Weekly

“Dunn has once again written a charming cozy featuring an intelligent, strong woman.” Booklist

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