Damsel in distress

"It's Spring 1923, and love is in bloom -- though not for long. The Honourable Daisy Dalrymple has been enlisted by her childhood friend to recover his missing sweetheart. Miss Gloria Arbuckle, daughter of an American millionaire, has been abducted by kidnappers. Strictly forbidden to contact the po...

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Main Author: Dunn, Carola (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Minotaur Books, 2019.
Edition:First Minotaur paperback edition.
Series:Dunn, Carola. Daisy Dalrymple mystery ; 5.
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Summary:"It's Spring 1923, and love is in bloom -- though not for long. The Honourable Daisy Dalrymple has been enlisted by her childhood friend to recover his missing sweetheart. Miss Gloria Arbuckle, daughter of an American millionaire, has been abducted by kidnappers. Strictly forbidden to contact the police by Gloria's distraught father, Daisy must resist the temptation to bring her occasional collaborator, Scotland Yard's Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher, into the case. But as she closes in on the abductors' rural hideway, she realizes that Gloria isn't the only fair damsel whose life hangs in the balance." -- Back cover.
Item Description:Originally published by St. Martin's Press in 1997.
"Bonus story, Daisy Dalrymple in 'Unhappy medium'"--Cover.
Physical Description:255 pages ; 21 cm.
ISBN:9781250307415
1250307414
Author Notes:Carola Dunn was born in England on November 14, 1946. She received a B.A. in Russian and French from Manchester University and took a secretarial course for graduates at Oxford Tech. She traveled to numerous places around the world including Samoa and Fiji before getting married and settling in California. Prior to becoming a full-time writer, she worked in child-care, market research, construction, and wrote definitions for a science and technology dictionary. Her first book, Toblethorpe Manor, was published in 1979. Since then, she has written over 50 books including more than 30 Regency romances and the Daisy Dalrymple mystery series.

(Bowker Author Biography)