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 if 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 could seem he's made good on his promise. Yet Daisy isn't convinced, and with the help of her fiancé 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...

Congratulations on being a winner in Herchelle's April Shower! I hope you enjoy this book - chosen for you as I saw you have another Carola Dunn book on your AVL shelf.

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Received today in the mail as part of Herchelle's Annual April Showers Sweeps.
Thank you - this is one I haven't read. Love historical mysteries and this is set in the 1920s in England.

Great period mystery. Enjoyed this one!

Releasing at the Lower Mainland Bookcrossing Meetup!

There are constant references in this series to class and the advantages had by those who are fortunate enough to be in the upper classes and this book is no different. The facts are quite believable but the motives are a little strange. I know that in the twenties there were a number of people who hadn't yet learned that law applies to everyone and police who were hampered by senior officers who were subject to pressure from those people and withheld action under it but surely not everyone everywhere.
I do believe the bullying of the scholarship student because we've all seen that happen, but I find the acceptance of Basil DeLancey's appalling behaviour because he was a good cox a bit difficult to accept, even if the others did have touches of the same prejudice against the "lower orders". If a person is subjected to constant bullying they will eventually come to believe that they really are what the bullies call them so Horace's prickliness is understandable and Miss Hopgood will have an uphill job getting him past it.
All the details of the Henley Regatta were fun and enabled me to set the event geographically.
I do enjoy this series and the characters and Tom now has a beautiful blue and white checked summer suit. Wow! They are intended as light reading so it's probably unfair to carp at details.
Oh, and I do like the type of book protector that covered this paperback. I wish I'd had these for my school library. (No note that it has been withdrawn from the Welsh library system that owned it, but I'll assume it was since the pre-title page pages are missing.)