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Gone West

By: Carola Dunn
Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
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In September 1926, the Honorable 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.

©2013 Carola Dunn (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Cosy Detective Historical Mystery Traditional Detectives Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Fiction
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This is book 20 in the series so I know what to expect, and for sure none of the recurring characters will change in the slightest by now, but even if the book is just fine if you listen while driving or when you are doing some repetitive chore, it is not very exciting.

I don’t mind the reader, but sometimes her voice is so high pitched that it’s annoying.

Ok, but Daisy and Alec are fast becoming boring

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I think we can all agree that the Scottish doctor who appears in every book is actually one man who is travelling the country bumping off random aristocrats, and Daisy has been getting it wrong all along.

By this point

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Love the books … but please someone tell Carola Dunn that saluting does not occur unless the officers (both those saluting and those who they are saluting) are in uniform.

Saluting …

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Another very good installment in this series, lots of fun. Only thing I would say is some of the female characters are a little annoying, I'm finding Lucy rather difficult to like at times. Otherwise love it.

Very good

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I feel like Daisy et al are like a warm pair of slippers and a cup of tea. I find the stories so comforting, easy to listen to and I just adore the tame but still gripping plots. I’ll be at a loss when I get to the end of these!

As comforting as you can get

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