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great 1920s whodunit, January 17, 2012
This review is from: Gone West: A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery (Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries) (Hardcover)
In 1926 Derbyshire, Humphrey Birtwhistle has done well writing American Western novels. Although he has never set foot in the territory he describes, neither has his readers who take his descriptions and heroes as gospel. Humphrey has a large retinue of family, friends, and others living idly comfortably off his royalties. Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher visits her school days friend Sybil Sutherby at the home of the novelist. Humphrey's confidential secretary, Sybil feels something is not right, but is unsure what disturbs her except her gut tells her someone is poisoning her employer to keep him ill. She knows her friend has solved mysteries so she has invited Daisy to investigate. Sibyl explains to Daisy that when the writer became too sick to write, she ghost wrote the books, which lead to greater sales. Her fear is one of the hanger-on likes the additional income so does not want the status quo changed. Daisy begins her inquiry only before she makes much headway, Humphrey is dead. As the amateur sleuth investigates what she believes is a homicide by seeking the motive amidst a horde of house guests and employees, Daisy's Scotland Yard DCI husband Alec Fletcher wants her to drop the case. The latest Daisy Dalrymple historical amateur sleuth is a great 1920s whodunit due to a strong mystery and the usual trademark sense of time and place. Fast-paced, readers will enjoy Daisy's latest caper (see Sheer Folly, Anthem for Doomed Youth and Gunpowder Plot) as she has Gone West to Debyshire where she faces a horde of ungrateful demanding slackers. Harriet Klausner
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Gone West, by Carola Dunn, February 7, 2012
This review is from: Gone West: A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery (Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries) (Hardcover)
The Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher, wife of Scotland Yard's celebrated Alec Fletcher, agrees to help an old school friend, Sybil Sutherby, find out whether or not her employer, a writer of Western novels, is being slowly poisoned. Unfortunately, Sybil's suspicions are all too justified. Humphrey Birtwhistle, pen-name Eli Hawke, dies shortly after Daisy's arrival--and it is not a natural death. Carola Dunn's secondary characters carry this book, from the reclusive, disgruntled brother and sister to the obsessed suitor for the thoroughly modern great-niece's hand. The relationships matter, and what looks like a murder for revenge turns out to be motivated by an entirely different character dynamic. Alec Fletcher gets the credit for solving the mystery, and he arrests, not one murderer, but two. Of course, Daisy still has to contend with Alec's myopic view of her penchant for sleuthing. It's about time he got over it.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Not my favorite, but that doesn't matter., January 28, 2012
This review is from: Gone West: A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery (Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries) (Hardcover)
I LOVE the Daisy Dalrymple series. I have right from the first. I just finished this one, and my only complaint is how tired I'm getting of Inspector Fletcher's determination to gripe about Daisy getting stuck in situations deliberately. By now, he should certainly know that's not true - especially considering he's got stuck right along with her more than once. Actually, that's probably pretty accurate for how men viewed things at the time - it's not that far off how a lot of them view things now. I do find myself wishing that some case would come up that would force him to admit that her Quaker fiance could not possibly have been a coward, conscientious objector or not. I loved Gone West. It is definitely a keeper. As are all the previous Daisy Dalrymple mysteries. I'm already looking forward to the next one.
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