Daisy Dalrymple

Daisy Dalrymple is at Wentwater Court to cover a story for Town & Country magazine. But when suave Lord Stephen Astwick meets a chilly end on the tranquil skating pond, with evidence that his death was anything but accidental, Daisy joins forces with Scotland Yard so the culprit can't slip through their fingers...

Young reporter Daisy Dalrymple has arrived at gloomy Occles Hall, in Cheshire. While photographing the rather barren grounds, Daisy unearths the corpse of missing parlour maid Grace Moss. As the dead woman’s secret is revealed, Daisy realises she needs to catch the killer before she herself is endangered.

Daisy Dalrymple is enjoying a delightful performance of Verdi’s Requiem, but when all that emerges from the doomed diva’s vocal chords is a dying gasp, Daisy soon discovers that the notoriously difficult opera star had her share of adversaries… Did someone fatally poison the acclaimed mezzo? Will Daisy’s investigation end on as bitter a note as Bettina’s fateful last performance?

Daisy's chum, the Honourable Phillip Petrie, is totally smitten with Miss Gloria Arbuckle, daughter of a millionaire Yank. But before the enthusiastic suitor can pop the question, his beloved is abducted by kidnappers. As a distraught Mr Arbuckle begins assembling the ransom, Phillip enlists Daisy to help him recover his missing sweetheart.

Jack McNulty is a 'temporary gentleman', an Irishman whose commission in the British army in the Second World War was never made permanent. He has wandered the world, following his childhood ambition to better himself. Then in 1957, in his lodgings in Accra, he sets out to write his story.