The Corpse at the Crystal Palace, Carola Dunn
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The Corpse at the Crystal Palace
A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery

Author: Carola Dunn

Narrator: Lucy Rayner

Unabridged: 10 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/03/2018


Synopsis

Daisy Dalrymple is backwhen a casual outing to the Crystal Palace in London takes a mysterious and murderous turn. April 1928: Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher is visited in London by her young cousins. On the list of must-see sites is the Crystal Palace. Discovering that her childrens nanny, Nanny Gilpin, has never seen the Palace, Daisy decides to make a day of itbringing her cousins, her three-year-old twins, her step-daughter Belinda, the nurserymaid, and Nanny Gilpin. Yet this ordinary outing goes wrong when Mrs. Gilpin goes off to the ladies room and fails to return. When Daisy goes to look for her, she doesnt find her nanny but instead the body of another woman dressed in a nannys uniform.Meanwhile, Belinda and the cousins spot Mrs. Gilpin chasing after yet another nanny. Intrigued, they trail the two through the vast Crystal Palace and into the park. After briefly losing sight of their quarry, they stumble across Mrs. Gilpin lying unconscious in a small lake inhabited by huge concrete dinosaurs.When she comes to, Mrs. Gilpin cant remember what happened after leaving the twins in the nurserymaids care. Daisys husband, Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard, finds himself embroiled in the investigation of the murdered nanny. Worried about her childrens own injured nanny, Daisy is determined to help. First she has to discover the identity of the third nanny, the presumed murderer, and to do so, Daisy must uncover why the amnesic Mrs. Gilpin deserted her charges to follow the missing third nanny.

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