Die Laughing: A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery

Carola Dunn

Oct 2003 · Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries Book 12 · Sold by Minotaur Books

About this ebook

One morning in April 1924, The Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher finds herself in a most unenviable position. Despite her best attempts to elude the inevitable, she must face her darkest fears and with all strength and courage she can muster, must confront the one person she has tried hardest to avoid - the dentist. But upon arriving for her appointment, she finds the waiting room deserted and adjoining examination room locked with no hint of either Dr. Talmadge or his nurse. Thinking to leave quietly, Daisy's retreat is halted by the return of the nurse and, with the help of Mrs. Talmadge, the two begin searching for the inexplicably absent doctor. Exhausting all other possibilities, they resort to looking once again in the surgery where they find him stilling in his dentist's chair with the nitrous mask strapped to his face, the tank of nitrous turned on full, a smile on his face and stone, cold dead.

While the circumstances of his death are out of the ordinary, there's no reason to suspect that it was anything other than a tragic, if inevitable, accident of a careless dope fiend. At least to everyone but Daisy herself. Sure that there is something more than happenstance and an accident involved in the dentist's untimely death, Daisy is determined to uncover the truth behind a case of what she is certain is murder most foul.

Ratings and reviews

1920s, England, friendship, family-dynamics, situational-humor, verbal-humor, cosy-mystery, murder-investigation, law-enforcement, scandal, relationships, historical-novel, historical-research***** This one is more of a soap opera than a farce, but it's still funny and the sleuthing is pretty good. The publisher's blurb is a fair hook but doesn't even mention the dreaded mother-in-law. Spiffing good read. Lucy Rayner does a fine job of narrating.

About the author

Carola Dunn is the author of many previous mysteries featuring Daisy Dalrymple as well as numerous historical novels. Born and raised in England, she lives in Eugene, Oregon.