Sheer Folly cover art

Sheer Folly

A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery

 Preview

Get 30 days of Premium Plus free

£8.99/month after 30-day free trial. Cancel monthly.
Try for £0.00
More purchase options
Buy Now for £12.99

Buy Now for £12.99

About this listen

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.

©2009 Carola Dunn (P)2017 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Cosy Detective Fiction Historical Mystery Traditional Detectives Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Marriage
All stars
Most relevant
Could have been a number of people. The first half was rather depressing as full of unpleasant characters. Once one of them was 'dispatched' it became much more fun with an OH! right at the end.

One of the Better Daisy Stories

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Great story and well worth listening to. Look forward to listening to more by the same author

Brilliant

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
A lot of the story in this Daisy Dalrymple installment takes place before the actual death, it's unusual for a "murder mystery" genre book but very well done. We get a lot more of the individual characters and so are given the opportunity to become invested before the fact rather than solely after.

A book with a wonderfully happy ending.

Excellent Storytelling

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
plenty of laugh out loud moments which more that made up for the mispronunciations.

lots of fun

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
It’s a good story but finishes a bit suddenly and I’d like to see the culprit arrested! The narrator is good. Baffled by reviews otherwise which don’t even get the narrator’s name right. English clearly IS her first language and she’s by far the best narrator of these. Only quibble is the slightly shrill voices for Lucy and Daisy.

Ignore spiteful reviews!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews