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Styx and Stones (Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries)

By: Carola Dunn
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation
ISBN: 0758213956
ISBN-13: 9780758213952
Released: 02 Jun 2006
RRP: £4.55
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Write title and story - By: Frosty, 02 Nov 2008
Stir up the mud in the village pond & you'd be surprised by the stink. This yarn of poison pens, rumoured misdeeds, misunderstandings & lost souls takes so many twists & turns you can't work out who did it until late in the book. I was with Daisy alll the way on this one. Well worth another reading.
Enjoyable historical mystery - By: , 16 Jul 1999
In 1923 London, a desperate Lord John Frobisher visits his sister-in-law Daisy Dalrymple to ask for her help. Someone has sent John an ugly unsigned letter filled with profanity, that accuses the aristocrat of having an affair with a widow, Mrs. LeBeau. John acknowledges that he in deed did have a dallliance with the woman, but that it ended. John wants Daisy, who has had success with solving mysteries, to come to his hometown of Kent to uncover the identity of the perpetrator. Even knowing that Daisy's fiancé works for Scotland Yard & fears for her safety, John refuses to go to the police because he does not want to hurt his family.

Daisy, accompanied by her fiancé's daughter, travels to Kent where she quickly learns that the anonymous author has written similar letters to many of the local citizens. However, before she can determine who the culprit behind the crippling correspondence is, Daisy finds the murdered corpse of the Vicar's brother.

The seventh Dalrymple amateur sleuth historical mystery is an entertaining entry in a well-written series. The cozy-like story line moves forward though the motive for the letters seems too stretched for such a campaign. Still Daisy retains her freshness & the support cast makes readers feel they are visiting the decade following WW I in England. Though far from Carola Dunn's best entry in an overalll wonderful series, STYX AND STONES remains an enjoyable novel.

Harriet Klausner