Dead in the Water (Daisy Dalrymple)
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"July 1923, and Daisy has been invited by an American magazine to cover the Henley Regatta. But unknown to her: she steps right into a class war between two members of the Oxford rowing team. Cox Horace Bott - a shopkeeper's son and scholar student - has always hated rower Basil DeLancy - younger son of an earl and all-round cad and bully. And after a particularly brutal public humiliation by DeLancy, Bott swears revenge - so when DeLancy keels over and dies mid-race, it would seem he's made good on his promise.
Yet Daisy isn't convinced, and with the help of her fiance Detective Inspector Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard, she dives into a tangled web of jealousies and secrets, where appearances are everything and good breeding may just be a cover for a killer intent on keeping Daisy mum forever .... ".
Once again, the newly engaged Daisy reads the characters correctly. Unusually, this tale has a twist which leaves doubt at the end as to the reality of this situation but throughout the storyline the various characters all seem to act as you would expect for the times depicted (except Daisy, of course!). It was good to read of earlier boat race times and this story showed the background research has been thorough. This plot relied on the emotions of characters and as Carola Dunn writes well on this issue, the scenario worked for me on the emotional level.
There is a plan for this book, a cunning plan .....
Released 6 yrs ago (4/21/2017 UTC) at -- Controlled Release, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- United Kingdom
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Released 6 yrs ago (5/4/2017 UTC) at The Newsroom in Edinburgh, Scotland United Kingdom
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Dead in the Water set in July 1923, at Henley Regatta, involves some tricky areas of investigating here for Alec where in the event of a suspicious death, he is called suddenly to duty and during an investigation finds himself obliged to pick his way cautiously through interviews with Daisy’s relatives and family friends. Yes, Daisy and Alec are recently engaged in this volume but he still is not anywhere near at ease with this class of people. However, he has honour and professional gravitas on his side as Daisy points out to his gratification. [OK cannot find the precise quote in a rush so that will have to do.]
Intriguing little addition to the Daisy Dalrymple series which sees Daisy as ever involved and striving to aid people she cares for when they become touched by the tragedy and danger of a murder investigation. Once again we find Daisy’s infectious mix of generous compassion and overweening curiosity having the potential to land her in the path of a potential murder suspect, and then what! Brilliant fun!!!
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Released 6 yrs ago (5/13/2017 UTC) at -- Wild Released Somewhere In Edinburgh 🤷♂️ in Edinburgh, Scotland United Kingdom
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Left at the Little Free Library outside the glasshouses at Edinburgh's Botanic Gardens. . . though not for long. It was only seconds before this was scooped up - I was thrilled!
Finished this book just now. My first Daisy Dalrymple mystery and I have to say it was a bit naive. Both Christie and Georgette Hayer have set mysteries in the 1920'ies without making the women sound helpless and ignorant, quite the contrary. I have another Daisy mystery at home, will give her another chance.
I saw punts in Oxford in 2015. Otherwise I would not have known what punting is. They are not punting much in this book. They have much more serious boating to do.
This is my book #21 in the Reduce Mount TBR 2018 -challence by Dove-i-libri.
Happy reading!
Book #41 in the 2018 Keep Them Moving -challence by Booklady331