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Sheer Folly

A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery

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Sheer Folly

By: Carola Dunn
Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
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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.

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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

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Great story and well worth listening to. Look forward to listening to more by the same author

Brilliant

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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

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plenty of laugh out loud moments which more that made up for the mispronunciations.

lots of fun

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Plenty of suspects workings of house order of servants Not recalling what you know proves costly

Keeps you guessing

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