Record Number |
802915 |
ISBN |
9781845298661 (paperback) |
Author |
Dunn, Carola author. |
Title |
The black ship : a Daisy Dalrymple mystery / Carola Dunn. |
Publisher/Date |
London : Robinson, an imprint of Constable & Robinson, 2009. |
©2009 |
Pagination etc. |
338 pages ; 20 cm. |
Series |
Daisy Dalrymple mystery 17. |
Summary Note |
It is 1925 and the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple, her husband Alec Fletcher and their recent twins move to a new, large house on the outskirts of London. Set in a small circle of houses with a communal garden, it seems like the idyllic setting - that is, until a murder victim turns up under the bushes of the communal garden. Now rumours of bootleggers, American gangsters and an international liquor smuggling operation via black ships turn everything upside down. Alec, in his role as Scotland Yard detective, has been assigned to ferret out the truth behind the murder - but it is up to Daisy to find out who the dead man is, what his relationship with her new neighbours was, why he was murdered - and who it was who did him in! |
Subject - Name |
Dalrymple, Daisy(Fictitious character)Fiction |
Subject |
Americans -- England -- Fiction |
Criminals -- England -- Fiction |
Liquor industry -- Great Britain -- Fiction |
Nineteen twenties -- Fiction |
Police spouses -- Fiction |
Smuggling -- England -- Fiction |
Women journalists -- Fiction |
Great Britain -- History -- George V, 1910-1936 -- Fiction |
Detective and mystery fiction. |
Shelf Location |
F DUNN |