A-Z Wednesday: Death at Wentwater Court by Carola Dunn
Reading at the Beach is hosting this fun meme: Each week she invites you to spotlight a book whose title begins with the featured letter. This week we have the letter D.
My D book is Death at Wentwater Court by Carola Dunn. This novel is the first in the Daisy Dalrymple series, which is set in 1920s Britain. Here's what I had to say in 2007, when I read the book:
Lots of fun. Not fine literature, but a good cast of characters, a fun time period, and a plot that held up. Scotland Yard's Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher is a great character, and I hope he plays a part in future books. I love the substory of the titled Daisy becoming a working girl and the waves it causes with her landed gentry friends.I read the second book in the series, The Winter Garden Mystery, in 2008. I think it's time to visit Daisy again. In truth, I listened to both novels, read by Bernadette Dunne, who is one of my favorite narrators. She is a master at the British slang and really brings out the fun in this series.
Can you recommend any other Roaring Twenties books (any genre)?
15 comments:
I will check it out as I like mysteries!
I posted about Deep Freeze by Lisa Jackson
In a series, characters are everything! It is always nice to lighten up with one of these now and again!
Hmmm...Another new series to me! You give such good recommendations.
well, a bit pre-roaring 20s is ragtime...which is a good book and movie...
then there's always the great gatsby...an iconic roaring 20s piece that examines the culture and decadence that led up to the great depression.
Thanks, Natalie. Both great suggestions and ones that I've read. Anyone who hasn't read Ragtime is in for a treat and the Great Gatsby is. of course, a classic and a must read.
Interesting book!
Your series sounds fine.
Can I recommend a cozy series from the 1930s if it begins with a D?
I have Ngaio Marsh, Death in a White Tie right next to me (because I have to write a review of a novel from New Zealand to try to win a book).
This is new to me. Looks interesting.
Thanks for playing!
I've heard good things about this series. Maybe I should give it a try sometime.
It's so interesting to me that there seem to be so few well known roaring twenties set books. I would think it was a completely fertile time. Ah well.
Thanks for the recommendation; these look like must-reads :-)
==lennie==
Sounds great!
Have not heard of this series.
Now that's something I must get to! :)
I have some of these...but not this one, the first one in the series. So naturally I can't start them yet. Not that I have time to... but they sound like fun!
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