Superfluous Women: Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries Series, Book 22
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Carola Dunn. (2015). Superfluous Women: Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries Series, Book 22. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Carola Dunn. 2015. Superfluous Women: Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries Series, Book 22. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Carola Dunn, Superfluous Women: Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries Series, Book 22. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2015.

Carola Dunn. Superfluous Women: Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries Series, Book 22. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2015.

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   • bioText: CAROLA DUNN is the author of many mysteries featuring Daisy Dalrymple, including Sheer Folly, Gone West and Heirs to the Body, as well as numerous historical novels. Born and raised in England, she lives in Eugene, Oregon.
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In England in the late 1920s, The Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher, on a convalescent trip to the countryside, goes to visit three old school friends in the area. The three, all unmarried, have recently bought a house together. They are a part of the generation of "superfluous women"—brought up expecting marriage and a family, but left without any prospects after more than 700,000 British men were killed in the Great War.
Daisy and her husband Alec—Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher, of Scotland Yard —go for a Sunday lunch with Daisy's friends, where one of the women mentions a wine cellar below their house, which remains curiously locked, no key to be found. Alec offers to pick the lock, but when he opens the door, what greets them is not a cache of wine, but the stench of a long-dead body.
And with that, what was a pleasant Sunday lunch has taken an unexpected turn. Now Daisy's three friends are the most obvious suspects in a murder and her husband Alec is a witness, so he can't officially take over the investigation. So before the local detective, Superintendent Underwood, can officially bring charges against her friends, Daisy is determined to use all her resources (Alec) and skills to solve the mystery behind this perplexing locked-room crime.

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   • source: Seattle Times on Heirs of the Body
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     "Dunn's forebears are writers such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers. They set the standard for classic cozy puzzles, and Heirs of the Body's unfussy prose and straightforward plot lend themselves well to this venerable tradition."

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   • source: Library Journal on Heirs of the Body
   • content: "A witty historical cozy series."
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   • source: Publishers Weekly on Heirs of the Body

   • content: "Entertaining... Fans of Downton Abbey will be delighted."
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     April 13, 2015
     The shadow of WWI hangs over Dunn’s affecting 22nd mystery set in 1920s England (after 2013’s Heirs of the Body). To escape the London smog, journalist Daisy Dalrymple and her husband, Scotland Yard’s Det. Insp. Alec Fletcher, have come to the Thames Valley town of Beaconsfield, where a school friend Daisy hasn’t seen in years, Wilhelmina “Willie” Chandler, has bought a house with two other unmarried women. When Daisy and Alec go to a luncheon given by Willie and her housemates, Isabel Sutcliffe and Vera Leighton, the couple find their hostesses without a key to the wine cellar. Alec offers to pick the lock and upon entry into the cellar makes the gruesome discovery of a dead body. With Willie, Isabel, and Vera as murder suspects, Daisy sets out on her own to unearth the truth. Dunn sensitively portrays a largely female society devastated by the war that cost the lives of more than 700,000 British men. Agent: Alice Volpe, Northwest Literary Agency.

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     April 1, 2015
     The wife of a high-ranking Scotland Yard detective finds herself involved in yet another murder case. The dangerous London smog of 1927 has driven Daisy Fletcher to The Saracen's Head in Beaconsfield on orders from her doctor. Coughing and weak, she works up the strength to visit Cherry Trees, the home of her school friend Willie Chandler-a rare female Chartered Accountant-and housemates Vera Leighton and Isabel Sutcliffe. With so many men killed in the war, England is awash with such so-called superfluous women. When Daisy's husband, Alec, arrives to see her, they are invited to dine with the three ladies, who wish they could get into the locked cellar to see if perhaps former owner Mrs. Gray left a nice bottle of wine behind. Alec obligingly picks the lock only to find a badly decomposed body, most likely that of Mrs. Gray. Pleasant local Inspector Underwood asks the Yard if Alec can work the case on an unofficial basis, little knowing that they'll get not only Alec and his sergeant, but Daisy, whose insatiable curiosity has involved her in many a murder investigation (Heirs of the Body, 2013, etc.). Daisy turns up a good deal of local gossip through Sally, a hotel waitress who's been especially helpful and whose grumpy aunt is the house cleaner at Cherry Trees. Although Daisy's sure none of her friends are involved, there are many secrets to uncover before the case is solved. Fans of classic British mysteries and Dunn's clever heroine will find plenty of local color and red herrings in her latest charmer.

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     May 1, 2015
     

     On a visit to her old school chum Willie and her two unmarried roommates, Daisy has to figure out who killed the house's former owner, whose body is found inside a locked wine cellar. The 22nd entry (after Heirs of the Body) in the charming 1920s-set series proves that Dunn just keeps getting better.

     Copyright 2015 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     May 1, 2015
     Now here's a proper British mystery. The title refers to the two million excess women left unmarried after WWI. Dunn's heroine, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple, now wife of Scotland Yard Inspector Alec Fletcher, is friends with one of these women, Willie Chandler, a chum from school who has just moved to Beaconsfield with two other roommates. With Daisy recuperating in the village after a bout of bronchitis, she renews the acquaintance, and she and Alec gladly accept an invitation to Sunday lunch. Though the smell of roast beef and Yorkshire pudding wafts through the kitchen, another, less aromatic smell comes from the basement. Alas, it is the exceedingly dead body of a woman. Are Willie et al. the murderers? What about the leasing agent, who had a thing for the home's former owner? Or the lascivious schoolteacher? Daisy, much to the chagrin of her husband (though he's getting used to it), is as involved as ever in this twenty-first book of the series. A thoroughly cozy atmosphere combines with a solid mystery. More Daisy, please.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2015, American Library Association.)

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Daisy and her husband Alec—Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher, of Scotland Yard —go for a Sunday lunch with Daisy's friends, where one of the women mentions a wine cellar below their house, which remains curiously locked, no key to be found. Alec offers to pick the lock, but when he opens the door, what greets them is not a cache of wine, but the stench of a long-dead body.
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