Die Laughing
A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery
The Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries: Book #12
- By: Carola Dunn
- Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
- Length: 8 hours 24 minutes
Description
One morning in April 1924, the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher finds herself in a most unenviable position. Despite her best attempts to elude the inevitable, she must face her darkest fears and with all strength and courage she can muster, must confront the one person she has tried hardest to avoid—the dentist. But upon arriving for her appointment, she finds the waiting room deserted and adjoining examination room locked with no hint of either Dr. Talmadge or his nurse.
Thinking to leave quietly, Daisy’s retreat is halted by the return of the nurse and, with the help of Mrs. Talmadge, the two begin searching for the inexplicably absent doctor. Exhausting all other possibilities, they resort to looking once again in the surgery where they find him stilling in his dentist’s chair with the nitrous mask strapped to his face, the tank of nitrous turned on full, a smile on his face and stone-cold dead.
While the circumstances of his death are out of the ordinary, there’s no reason to suspect that it was anything other than a tragic, if inevitable, accident of a careless dope fiend. Certain that there is something more than happenstance and an accident involved in the dentist’s untimely death, Daisy is determined to uncover the truth behind a case of what she is certain is murder most foul.
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The Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries Series
Death at Wentwater Court
By: Carola Dunn
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 6 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
This first installment of a delightful cozy mystery series transports listeners back to the bygone era of 1923 Britain, where unflappable flapper and fledgling journalist Daisy Dalrymple daringly embarks on her first writing assignment—and promptly stumbles across a corpse.
No stranger to sprawling country estates, wealthy Daisy Dalrymple is... Read more »
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The Winter Garden Mystery
By: Carola Dunn
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 7 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
In this second installment of Carola Dunn’s cozy mystery series set in 1923 England, plucky Daisy Dalrymple embarks on another assignment for Town and Country magazine and discovers that daffodil bulbs aren’t all that’s buried in a country estate’s flower bed.
The merest hint of spring has arrived in Cheshire, and so has Daisy Dalrymple. The... Read more »
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Requiem for a Mezzo
By: Carola Dunn
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 6 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
In the third installment of Carola Dunn’s cozy mystery series, Daisy Dalrymple is up to her fashionable bob in temperamental artists—one of whom is a cunning killer.
With dashing Scotland Yard Inspector Alec Fletcher at her side, Daisy is enjoying a delightful performance of Verdi’s Requiem, featuring her neighbor Muriel Westlea’s celebrated... Read more »
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Murder on the Flying Scotsman
By: Carola Dunn
Narrated by: Mia Chiaromonte
Length: 6 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
It is the spring of 1923 and the Honorable Daisy Dalrympleis on her way to a stately home in Scotland to research her next article for Town and Country. On board the Flying Scotsman, the famousLondon-to-Edinburgh train, Daisy meets an old schoolfellow, Anne Bretton. Anne,along with all of her relatives, is en route to visit the deathbed of... Read more »
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Damsel in Distress
By: Carola Dunn
Narrated by: Mia Chiaromonte
Length: 7 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
In spring a young man’s fancy will turn to love, and theHonorable Phillip Petrie is no exception. Daisy’s chum is totally smitten withMiss Gloria Arbuckle, daughter of a millionaire Yank. But before theenthusiastic suitor can pop the question, his beloved is abducted. As adistraught Mr. Arbuckle begins assembling the ransom, Phillip enlists... Read more »
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Dead in the Water
By: Carola Dunn
Narrated by: Mia Chiaromonte
Length: 7 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
May the best man die!
In July of 1923, the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple travels toHenley-on-Thames to visit her aunt and uncle, as well as to work on her latestwriting assignment: covering the Henley Royal Regatta for an American magazine.
Daisy plansa simple trip researching her article, enjoying the races, and, come theweekend, having a pleasant... Read more »
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Styx and Stones
By: Carola Dunn
Narrated by: Mia Chiaromonte
Length: 7 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Unflappable flapper and Town& Country scribe Daisy Dalrymple searches for a killer whose viciouspen matches a murderous heart in this delightful installment of Dunn’s cozymystery series.
In the 1920s, in post–World War I England, the HonorableDaisy Dalrymple, newly married to Detective Inspector Alec Fletcher, is askedby her brother-in-law to... Read more »
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Rattle His Bones
By: Carola Dunn
Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
Length: 8 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
The eighth installment in this cozy mystery series features Daisy Dalrymple at the Museum of Natural History, a place of fascination-and murderIn the summer of 1923, the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple makes what should be an uneventful research trip to the Museum of Natural History quite an eventful day-with her nephew Derek and her soon-to-be... Read more »
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To Davy Jones Below
By: Carola Dunn
Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
Length: 8 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
In late 1926, the newly married Daisy Dalrymple and Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard take an ocean voyage to America for their honeymoon. Daisy and Alec are accompanied by Daisy’s childhood friend Phillip Petrie, his wife, Gloria, and Gloria’s father, American millionaire industrialist Caleb P. Arbuckle, and all are... Read more »
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The Case of the Murdered Muckraker
By: Carola Dunn
Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
Length: 8 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
In late 1923 the newly married Daisy Dalrymple and her husband, Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard, come to America for a honeymoon visit. In the midst of a pleasure trip, however, both work in a bit of business—Alec travels to Washington, DC, to consult with the US government, Daisy to New York to meet with her American... Read more »
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Mistletoe and Murder
By: Carola Dunn
Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
Length: 7 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Seething resentments, well-kept family secrets, and a savage murder set the stage for Christmas in Cornwall in this cozy holiday installment of the Daisy Dalrymple mysteries.In December 1923, the formidable Dowager Viscountess Dalrymple has decided that for Christmas the family will all gather at Brockdene in Cornwall at the invitation of Lord... Read more »
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Die Laughing
By: Carola Dunn
Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
Length: 8 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
One morning in April 1924, the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher finds herself in a most unenviable position. Despite her best attempts to elude the inevitable, she must face her darkest fears and with all strength and courage she can muster, must confront the one person she has tried hardest to avoid—the dentist. But upon arriving for her... Read more »
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A Mourning Wedding
By: Carola Dunn
Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
Length: 10 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
The inimitable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher and her husband Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher seem to get a reprieve from their sleuthing duties when they are invited to the wedding of their friend, Lucy Fotheringay.Lucy’s grandfather is hosting the ceremony at his beautiful estate and so it promises to be a typical affair with hordes of... Read more »
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Fall of a Philanderer
By: Carola Dunn
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 8 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
In the summer of 1924, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher is off on a holiday by the sea with her step-daughter Belinda, Belinda’s chum Deva, and Daisy’s husband, Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard. Daisy is anticipating a relaxing, nondramatic holiday—but Daisy doesn’t have that kind of luck. It seems that a low-rent... Read more »
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Gunpowder Plot
By: Carola Dunn
Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
Length: 8 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
In the winter of 1924, Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher travels to a school friend’s house to witness the estate’s famous Guy Fawkes celebration. But she gets more than the quiet weekend at the quaint family manse that she was originally hoping for.The home is the site of some severe family tension. The Viscount and head of the family is a strict and... Read more »
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The Bloody Tower
By: Carola Dunn
Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
Length: 9 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
In early 1925, the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher—recent mother of twins—resumes her journalistic career by agreeing to write a piece about the Tower of London—the Bloody Tower—for an American magazine. Invited to observe the centuries-old ritual Ceremony of the Keys, she’s spending the night (her first time away from her babies) since the... Read more »
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Black Ship
By: Carola Dunn
Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
Length: 10 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
In September 1925, Scotland Yard DCI Alec Fletcher inherits a large house on the outskirts of London from a recently deceased great-uncle. Fortunately so, as he and his wife, the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher, are the recent proud parents of twins, and their house is practically bursting at the seams. Though in need of a bit of work, this... Read more »
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Sheer Folly
By: Carola Dunn
Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
Length: 11 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
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... Read more »
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Anthem for Doomed Youth
By: Carola Dunn
Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
Length: 10 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
In the Spring of 1926, the corpses of three men are found in shallow graves off the beaten path in Epping Forest outside of London-each shot through the heart and bearing no identification. DCI Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard, the lead detective, is immediately given two urgent orders by his supervisor at the Yard: solve the murders quickly and... Read more »
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Gone West
By: Carola Dunn
Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
Length: 11 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
In September 1926, the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher visits Sybil Sutherby, a school friend now living in Derbyshire as the confidential secretary to a novelist. Suspecting that something is seriously amiss, Sybil has asked Daisy to discretely investigate.Upon arrival, Daisy finds a household of relatives and would-be suitors living off the... Read more »
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Heirs of the Body
By: Carola Dunn
Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
Length: 11 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
When one of four potential claimants to the title of Lord Dalrymple dies a sudden, nasty death, the question on everyone's mind is, "was it murder?"In the late 1920s in England, the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher is recruited to help her cousin Edgar-i.e. the Lord Dalrymple. About to turn fifty, Lord Dalrymple decides it is time to find out... Read more »
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Superfluous Women
By: Carola Dunn
Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
Length: 11 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
In England in the late 1920s, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher, on a convalescent trip to the countryside, goes to visit three old school friends in the area. The three, all unmarried, have recently bought a house together. They are a part of the generation of "superfluous women"-brought up expecting marriage and a family, but left... Read more »
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The Corpse at the Crystal Palace
By: Carola Dunn
Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
Length: 10 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Daisy Dalrymple is back-when a casual outing to the Crystal Palace in London takes a mysterious and murderous turn.
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... Read more »
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