Gone West: A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery: 20 (Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries 20)

Dunn has once again written a charming cozy featuring an intelligent strong woman. A treat for Daisys fans as well as those who enjoy Jacqueline Winspears Maisie Dobbs. –Booklist . In September 1926 the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher visits Sybil Sutherby a school friend now living in Derbyshire as the confidential secretary to a novelist. Suspecting that something is seriously amiss Sybil has asked Daisy to discretely investigate. Upon arrival Daisy finds a household of relatives and would-be suitors living off the hospitality of Humphrey Birtwhistle who had been supporting them through his thrice-yearly pseudonymous Westerns. When he took ill though Sybil took over writing them while he recovered only to see the sales increase. . Now she fears that someone in the household is poisoning Birtwhistle to keep him ill and Sybil writing the better-paying versions. But before Daisy can even get decently underway Humphrey Birtwhistle dies under suspicious circumstances and Daisy now faces a death to untangle a house full of suspects and a Scotland Yard detective husband who is less than pleased at this turn of events in Gone West.