Superfluous Women

A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery

By: Carola Dunn

Narrated by: Lucy Rayner

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 without any prospects after more than 700,000 British men were killed in the Great War.

Daisy and her husband Alec - Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher, of Scotland Yard - go for a Sunday lunch with Daisy’s friends, where one of the women mentions a wine cellar below their house, which remains curiously locked, no key to be found. Alec offers to pick the lock, but when he opens the door, what greets them is not a cache of wine but the stench of a long-dead body.

And with that, what was a pleasant Sunday lunch has taken an unexpected turn. Now Daisy’s three friends are the most obvious suspects in a murder and her husband Alec is a witness, so he can’t officially take over the investigation. So before the local detective, Inspector Underwood, can officially bring charges against her friends, Daisy is determined to use all her resources (Alec) and skills to solve the mystery behind this perplexing locked-room crime.

©2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc. (P)2018 Carola Dunn

Enjoyable

Easy entertaining story with Daisy getting out of London to recuperate from being ill

A great cast of characters and small town hijinks!

Wonderful Series

I love listening to series books and this is one of my favorites. The main character is absolutely lovable and real even with a ‘title in name only’. The plots are well constructed and engaging. As are all the characters. Very well played voice acting. Loved every book in the series.

This has to be my favorite in the series

I love all of the Daisy books, but this one is definitely my favorite. I think it was because the supporting characters were so likable

Superfluous Indeed

Once again, Daisy prooves that she is indispensable to Alex. This is a well written and entertaining cozy mystery with engaging characters and an entertaining plot. I look forward to the next book.

I finally guess one correctly....

.... but as usual, I wasn't certain until the next-to-last chapter. Completely addicted to this series!

Pronunciation

The reader's pronunciation of the Sûreté is abominable. I can see some if the characters mispronouncing it, but Alec and Daisy certainly would not. There is even a line about Alec being connversant in French. Daisy would have studied the language. Are there not audio editors that would have caught this glaring mistake? Anyone who has even watched a British mystery on TV would know this.

Fabulous

This has been out of all one of the best. I have listened the entire series

A good one!

A very original plot, interesting characters easy to keep clear, and it moves the larger character arcs of Tom Tring and Ernie Piper along, as well.

best one imo

Good story line well told and excellent narration, most enjoyable one in the series imo

Superfluous women

A fun little murder mystery. Some if the men's voices were annoying but overall this book was entertaining.