“ This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. ” ― Rumi
Daisy Dalrymple, magazine writer and heiress, helps her pal Philip Petrie, whose sweetheart Gloria Arbuckle, daughter of a millionaire Yank, is kidnapped in 1923. Strictly forbidden to contact dashing Scotland Yard Inspector Alec Fletcher, she suspects tr
The Malice Domestic mystery is a mystery of manners. No blood, no body parts, just nice civilized murder. And in this collection, thirteen outstanding mystery writers explore the unlucky fates of those who indulge their most murderous fantasies.
Daisy Dalrymple, now wed to DCI Alec Fletcher, spends 1923 Christmas at Cornwall with distant relatives the Nevilles. Missionary Mr Calloway disapproves of the celebration and the family, and dies Xmas Eve at an isolated chapel. The elder daughter wanders
In the summer of 1924, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher is off on a summer holiday by the sea with her step-daughter Belinda and Belinda's chum Deva, and her husband, Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard. Daisy is anticipating a
In the winter of 1924, Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher and husband Alec, Scotland Yard DCI, celebrate Guy Fawkes with a country friend. On the evening before, the overly-demanding Viscount apparently shot himself in his study, after a married woman guest visitin
Daisy Dalrymple and Scotland Yard inspector Alec Fletcher enjoy a splendid performance of Verdi's Requiem, featuring her neighbor's sister Bettina, until the poisoned singer suddenly breathes her last. The diva was difficult and provoked many enemies - a
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 cer
In late 1923 the newly married Daisy Dalrymple and Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard take an ocean voyage to America for their honeymoon. Accompanied by Daisy's childhood friend Phillip Petrie, his wife, Gloria, and Gloria's father,
In the 1920's, in post-WWI England, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple, newly married to Detective Inspector Alec Fletcher, is asked by her brother-in-law to discreetly investigate a series of poisoned pen letters that many of the local villagers have been re
