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Sto caricando le informazioni... Die Laughingdi Carola Dunn
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. While Daisy dreads her visit to the dentist, she is comforted in knowing him socially and by reputation. However, when she finds Talmadge in his own dental chair with the gas mask on, she raises an alarm. While the immediate assumption is suicide, she sees evidence of murder. As Alec tries to navigate the investigation in his own social circles, secrets are revealed but the murderer remains elusive until the very end. 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. Wouldn't you know that a visit to the dentist would result in a dead body, at least it would for Daisy. Digging into the man's life reveils a long history of adultery on the part of both the man and his wife. What is amazing is that the all the rather messy relationship issues don't bog down the books breezy tone. Also, this is the book where Alex's difficult mother finally moves out, leaving Alex and Daisy in charge of their own house. Well, this was downright boring: Daisy goes to the dentist (a neighbor of hers who has an office to the side of his home) only to find him dead, in his chair of a Nitrous Oxide (Laughing Gas) overdose.... His wife was having an affair, as was he... She, however, is pregnant by her lover, so they both agree to end their affairs & work things out for the baby. Then, the dentist's lover's husband is found dead w/ his head in the oven... Could it have been a second murder? I really didn't like the characters, I especially do not like Daisy's mother-in-law nor her mother... This was an older Daisy Dalrymple mystery. I don't remember reading it but it was quite good. It was interesting see the early part of Alec's and Daisy's marriage and also meet Mrs. Prasad early on. The mystery was a good one although the killer was obvious to me early on. However, there were enough red herrings to obscure her identity legitimately for the book's detectives. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Appartiene alle SerieDaisy Dalrymple (12)
One morning in April 1924, the Honorable 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. Certain 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. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)823.914Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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