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Out of print in US--New UK editons

02/19/2011

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Two of my Daisy Dalrymple mysteries that have been practically impossible to find for a long time will be reprinted in the UK this month, release date February 24th.
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The 10th Daisy mystery

In The Case of the Murdered Muckraker, Daisy is in New York (following her transatlantic voyage in To Davy Jones Below). After witnessing a murder, she finds herself mixed up in Tammany Hall politics, just before an election. Alec comes to the rescue from DC, where he's been advising J. Edgar Hoover. They end up chasing a suspect across the country in a biplane!


They end up in Eugene, Oregon, chiefly because so many people here asked me when I was going to set a book here. The Eugene characters are almost all real people I found in histories of Eugene.

This is my only book set in the US, so I was very happy with this review in Publishers Weekly: "Dunn captures the melting pot of Prohibition era New York with humorous characterizations and a vivid sense of place...Throughout her travels in the States, Daisy is keenly attuned to people and place: race relations, regional accents, even foods all add to the texture of the story."
http://www.bookdepository.com/search?searchTerm=case+murdered+muckraker&search=search
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The 11th Daisy mystery




Mistletoe and Murder: Daisy and Alec are back in England and off to an ancient fortified manor house in Cornwall for Christmas. Daisy plans to write about it. The family of poor relations living there is decidedly out of the ordinary, and as peculiarities multiply, animosity culminates in murder.








The setting is a real house, Cotehele, and though I've changed its name to Brockdene for the story, since descendants of the then owners are still around, I've described it as is, including a bit of its history since the 15th century. The main departure from reality is a secret tunnel, which I invented for a Regency I set there (Smugglers' Summer) and thought I might as well make use of again!
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Cotehele, Cornwall, now a National Trust property
http://www.bookdepository.com/book/9781849017060/Mistletoe-and-Murder
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Win a signed Christmas mystery!

12/04/2010

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Read a review of Mistletoe and Murder, Daisy's Christmas mystery at http://kingsriverlife.com/12/04/christmas-mystery-reviews/  for a chance to win a signed copy!
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US paperback Edition
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UK edition (Feb '11)
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