A casual outing to the Crystal Palace in London takes a
mysterious and murderous turn in The Corpse at the
Crystal Palace, the latest mystery in Carola Dunn’s
beloved Daisy Dalrymple series.
April 1928: Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher is visited in London by
her young cousins. On the list of must-see sites is the
Crystal Palace. Discovering that her children's nanny, Nanny
Gilpin, has never seen the Palace, Daisy decides to make a
day of it—bringing her cousins, her 3-year-old twins, her
step-daughter Belinda, the nurserymaid, and Nanny Gilpin.
Yet this ordinary outing goes wrong when Mrs. Gilpin goes
off to the ladies’ room and fails to return. When Daisy goes
to look for her, she doesn't find her nanny but instead the
body of another woman dressed in a nanny's uniform.
Meanwhile, Belinda and the cousins spot Mrs. Gilpin chasing
after yet another nanny. Intrigued, they trail the two
through the vast Crystal Palace and into the park. After
briefly losing sight of their quarry, they stumble across
Mrs. Gilpin lying unconscious in a small lake inhabited by
huge concrete dinosaurs.
When she comes to, Mrs. Gilpin can't remember what happened
after leaving the twins in the nurserymaid's care. Daisy's
husband, Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher of Scotland
Yard, finds himself embroiled in the investigation of the
murdered nanny. Worried about her children's own injured
nanny, Daisy is determined to help. First she has to
discover the identity of the third nanny, the presumed
murderer, and to do so, Daisy must uncover why the amnesic
Mrs. Gilpin deserted her charges to follow the missing third
nanny.
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