Library Edition (Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries) Daisy Dalrymple (1)
Carola Dunn: Death at Wentwater Court (AudiobookFormat, 2005, Blackstone Audiobooks)
mp3 cd
English language
Published April 27, 2005 by Blackstone Audiobooks.
This first installment of a cozy mystery series transports listeners back to the bygone era of 1923 Britain, where unflappable flapper and fledgling journalist Daisy Dalrymple daringly embarks on her first writing assignment—and promptly stumbles across a corpse.
No stranger to sprawling country estates, wealthy Daisy Dalrymple is breaking new ground in having scandalously traded silver spoon for pen and camera to cover a story for Town and Country magazine. But her planned interviews with the inhabitants of Wentwater Court give way to interrogation after suave Lord Stephen Astwick meets a dire fate on the tranquil skating pond. Armed with evidence that his fate was anything but accidental, Daisy joins forces with Scotland Yard to examine an esteemed collection of suspects and to see that the unlikely culprit doesn’t slip through their fingers just as the unfortunate Astwick slipped through the ice.
Sadly, I did not enjoy this book too much. It was alright, but somehow it did not feel genuine. I was hoping so much, that it was very similar to Agatha Christie books—mostly because it plays in a similar time. Unfortunately I was disappointed and it was a rather bland mystery. At times I did not want to continue reading.
Extremely cozy British murder mystery
Makes no attempt to transcend the genre, but is a lovely and comfortable example of it. There is love, and detection, virtue is rewarded and evil punished, people make hard but noble decisions, and servants bring tea and put one's things away.
