Carola Dunn is an English

England

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-American

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 writer. She began by writing historical romances but later switched to crime stories. Today she lives and works in Eugene, Oregon

Oregon

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. The hero of her crime novels is the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple, a freelance writer, sometimes known as "Miss Daisy". Daisy's beau and later husband is Chief Detective Alec Fletcher. He tries, unsuccessfully to keep her out of crime investigations. His superiors at the Yard

Scotland Yard

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are terrified of her meddling but find it difficult to stop her because of her very high social position

Carola has two grandchildren.

The Daisy Dalrymple series

"Cosy mysteries set in England in the 1920s"

1. Death At Wentwater Court (1994)
2. The Winter Garden Mystery (1995)
3. Requiem For A Mezzo (1996)
4. Murder On The Flying Scotsman (1997)
5. Damsel In Distress (1997)
6. Dead In The Water (1999)
7. Styx And Stones (1999)
8. Rattle His Bones (2000)
9. To Davy Jones Below (2001)
10. The Case Of The Murdered Muckraker (2002)
11. Mistletoe And Murder (2002)
12. Die Laughing (2003)
13. A Mourning Wedding (2004)
14. Fall Of A Philanderer (2005)
15. Gunpowder Plot (2006)
16. The Bloody Tower (2007)
17. Black Ship (2008)
18. Sheer Folly (2009)
19. Anthem For Doomed Youth (2011)
20. Gone West (expected publication date January 2012)

Daisy also appears in short stories:

• "Unhappy Medium" in Malice Domestic 7 (available online)
• "Storm In A Tea Shoppe" in Crime Through Time (available online)

Cornish Mystery series

"Cozy mysteries set in Cornwall in the 1960s, in the fictional fishing port of Port Mabyn on the North Coast."

1. Manna From Hades (2009)
2. A Colorful Death (2010)

External links

• Official website