In Daisy's 18th adventure, she and her friend Lucy go to Appsworth Hall to investigate a grotto for their book on follies--the architectural kind. They find themselves investigating a murder.
Daisy Dalrymple #18
Minotaur Books
September 2009
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Featuring: Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher; Lucy, Lady Gerald Bincombe
304 pages ISBN: 031238775X EAN: 9780312387754 Hardcover Add to Wish List
In March of 1926, Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher and her friend and collaborator Lucy (a.k.a. Lady Gerald) head off for several days at stately home reputed to have the best grotto in the country. Working on a book of follies (architectural), 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, itโs 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 at the same time in ardent and artless pursuit of the hand in marriage of another. When the grotto explodes with Lord Rydal in it, itโs not a question of who would do itโas most whoโve met him would be sorely temptedโbut who actually did do it.
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