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The Winter Garden Mystery

A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery

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The Winter Garden Mystery

By: Carola Dunn
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
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 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.

Feisty flapper Dalrymple is a breath of fresh air to the occupants of gloomy Occles Hall in Cheshire, among them her former school chum, wallflower Bobbie Parslow, and the thorny mistress of the manor, Lady Valeria. While photographing the barren ground behind the house, Daisy suspects someone has been digging amidst the soil's first green shoots, and promptly unearths the corpse of Grace Moss, the missing parlor maid. So begins a harrowing romp as the dead woman's shocking secret is revealed.

©1995 Carola Dunn (P)2006 Blackstone Audio Inc. Detective Fiction Historical Mystery Traditional Detectives Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Cosy Exciting Murder Mystery

Critic reviews

"Set in a British manor house in 1923, this traditional charmer will please most everyone." ( Library Journal)
"Manners (P.G. Wodehouse-style) and mystery get equal time in a low-keyed story with considerable charm." ( Kirkus Reviews)
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Daisy does it again and as the main characters develope my joy increases. Another mystery and another delightful few days in their company. The only fleeting shadows for me are with Dunnes narration. I love her voices and if you've never spent time in the UK you will love it, however, the 'posh' accent attempts produce some weird pronunciations but it does get better towards the end. I'd still buy these books with the same narrator would suggest you listen to a sample first.

Daisy is always a guaranteed winner!

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Quaint and delightful story just that a number of common UK English words mispronounced throughout. Very annoying.

lovely story

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Great story, gentle murder mystery. A very enjoyable story but has to be one of the worst British accents ever! cringe worthy and jarring pronunciation of any word with the letters 'a' or 'o'. add the bizarre pronunciations of the words 'vary', 'coffee' and 'gas'. I remember the same issue with the first book where the narrator continually called one of the characters after vegetable. Fenella is pronounced with the emphasis on the second syllable not the first Fen-ELLA not FENNEL-a. it seems to have gotten worse in this second edition

Dick van Dyke wannabe

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A good murder mystery of the cosy, "Golden Age" style, but the choice of narrator was misguided. I'm not sure of her actual nationality, but she sounded American, and she had a very odd way with the English accents she was required to produce. Especially the (mostly) upper-class accents. She seems to think that in every word like "gather", "gladly", "gas", etc., the vowel sound was the long a (like the a sound in "garden"). It becomes a little distracting -- or distrahhhcting. ;)

She reads well, but I think she would be better suited to American audiobooks. Someone like Cornelius Garett (narrator of the wonderful Inspector Wilkins country-house-murder-mystery novels) would have been a better choice, or as the protagonist is female, Penelope Keith.

Good story, but needs a different narrator

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I like the Daisy Dalrymple books; they're good fun in that classic Golden Age puzzle tradition. But I won't be getting any more through Audible unless they change the reader. Not only is using an American such a mistake for this book which is after all set in England with a totally English set of characters ( bar the Welsh gardener), but she mispronounces quite a lot of words and names. It was painful to listen to.

Perfectly good book ruined by narrator.

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