Murder on the Flying Scotsman
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He ducked the blow.
‘Gloria!’ he shouted, and went for her attacker with the screwdriver.
The van’s driver caught him from behind and wrenched the screwdriver from his grasp. A second swing of the crowbar caught him on the side of the head.
Exploding stars blinded him. His ears rang. Distantly aware of a heavy, sweetish odour, he sank into darkness.
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In spring a young man’s fancy will turn to love and the Honourable Phillip Petrie is no exception. Daisy’s chum is totally smitten with Miss Gloria Arbuckle, daughter of a millionaire Yank. But before the enthusiastic suitor can pop the question, his beloved is abducted by kidnappers. As a distraught Mr Arbuckle begins assembling the ransom, Phillip enlists Daisy to help him recover his missing sweetheart.
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July, 1923. Daisy has been invited by an American magazine to cover the Henley Regatta. But unknown to her, she steps right into a class war between two members of the Oxford rowing team. Cox Horace Bott – a shopkeeper’s son and scholar student – has always hated rower Basil DeLancy – younger son of an earl and all-round cad and bully. And after a particularly brutal public humiliation by DeLancy, Bott swears revenge – so when DeLancy keels over and dies mid-race, it would seem he’s made good on his promise.
Yet Daisy isn’t convinced, and with the help of her fiancé Detective Inspector Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard, she dives into a tangled web of jealousies and secrets, where appearances are everything and good breeding may just be a cover for a killer intent on keeping Daisy mum . . .
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It is 1925: Daisy and her dashing Scotland Yard detective husband, Alec, have moved house to an idyllic, suburban setting. But the discovery of a man’s body in the adjoining gardens disrupts their peace with talk of bootleggers, American gangsters and black ship rum-runners. While Alec is assigned to the case, Daisy must mingle with her new neighbours to establish the dead man’s identity and uncover his murderer.
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Daisy Dalrymple, at work on her book of architectural follies, heads for Appsworth Hall, reputed to have the best grotto in the country. But Daisy’s plans are thrown off course when the grotto explodes and kills one of the houseguests, Lord Rydal. Faced with an array of suspects, all with good reason to want the abominable, tactless, and womanising Lord Rydal dead, it’s sheer folly for Daisy even to attempt to find the killer.
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