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Black Ship

A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery

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Black Ship

By: Carola Dunn
Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
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About this listen

In September 1925, Scotland Yard DCI Alec Fletcher inherits a large house on the outskirts of London from a recently deceased great-uncle. Fortunately so, as he and his wife, the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher, are the recent proud parents of twins, and their house is practically bursting at the seams. Though in need of a bit of work, this new, larger house seems a godsend - set in a small circle of houses, with a communal garden and Hampstead Heath nearby, the setting is idyllic.

Idyllic, that is until a dead body shows up half-hidden under the bushes of the communal garden. Now rumors of bootleggers, American gangsters, and an international liquor smuggling operation via black ships have turned everything in their new neighborhood upside down. Alec is assigned by Scotland Yard to ferret out the truth behind the dastardly dead - but it's up to Daisy to find out who the dead man is, what his relationship to her new neighbors is, why he was murdered, and who did him in!

©2017 Carola Dunn (P)2017 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Cosy Detective Historical Mystery Traditional Detectives Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Fiction England Cosy Mysteries

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These stories are getting better and better. Good narration as well. Lucy Rayner is by far the best narrator in the Daisy Dalrymple series. 🙂

My favourite so far

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Getting a bit bored with this series now. I’ve started and stopped it so many times. Time for me to move on.

No longer anything new

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Smuggling with corruption DANGERS OF UNDER COVER WORK THOUGH IN PART RINGS UNTRUE THOUGH GANG RIVALRIES
IS OBVIOUSLY TRUE

Red herrings and protection aboad in several situations

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Good storyline, well read , kept my interest,good author enjoying her series of mystery stories

Enjoyable story

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I love the characters but the story was a bit slow. Not one of the best!

A bit slow

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