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Sheer Folly: A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery
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Dunn, Carola
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Rayner, Lucy
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Daisy Dalrymple mysteries volume 18.
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Blackstone Publishing 2017
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In March of 1926, Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher and her friend and collaborator, Lady Lucy Gerald, head off for several days to a stately home reputed to have the best grotto in the country. Working on a book of architectural follies, they plan to research and photograph it. Leaving her husband and young twins behind, Daisy is expecting a productive weekend at Appsworth Hall, with the only potential difficulty being keeping Lucy from offending the current owner, a manufacturer of plumbing products. Alas, it's not to be quite so simple.

At the home, they find themselves faced with a curious assortment of people, including the abominable, tactless Lord Rydal, who is rumored to be having an affair with one of the guests while in ardent and artless pursuit of the hand in marriage of another. When the grotto explodes with Lord Rydal in it, it's not a question of who would do it―as most who've met him would be sorely tempted―but who actually did do it.

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Carola Dunn. (2017). Sheer Folly: A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing.

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Carola Dunn. 2017. Sheer Folly: A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery. Blackstone Publishing.

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Carola Dunn, Sheer Folly: A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery. Blackstone Publishing, 2017.

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Carola Dunn. Sheer Folly: A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing, 2017.

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At the home, they find themselves faced with a curious assortment of people, including the abominable, tactless Lord Rydal, who is rumored to be having an affair with one of the guests while in ardent and artless pursuit of the hand in marriage of another. When the grotto explodes with Lord Rydal in it, it's not a question of who would do it―as most who've met him would be sorely tempted―but who actually did do it.

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