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Dead in the Water

Book 6 of the Daisy Dalrymple series

Daisy Dalrymple visits relatives with fiance DCI Alec Fletcher, and covers the 1923 Henley Royal Regatta for an American magazine. But tensions escalate between the Ambrose team coxswain Horace Bott - shopkeeper's son and scholarship student at Oxford - and rower Basil DeLancey - the son of an Earl and all-round bounder - who keels over and dies mid-race.

Genre
british mysterymysteryhistorical fictioncozy mysteryhistorical mystery
Themes
murdermothers
Setting
20th centuryenglandbritish
Mood
light
Subject
history
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 256 pages

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