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Sheer Folly
- A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery
- Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
- Series: Daisy Dalrymple, Book 18
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
- Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Mystery
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>In July of 1923, the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple travels to Henley-on-Thames to visit her aunt and uncle, as well as to work on her latest writing assignment: covering the Henley Royal Regatta for an American magazine. Daisy plans a simple trip researching her article, enjoying the races, and, come the weekend, having a pleasant time with her fiancé, Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard. But the tensions between the Ambrose team's coxswain, Horace Bott - a shopkeeper's son and scholarship student at Oxford - and rower Basil DeLancey - the younger son of an earl and all-around bounder - are constantly threatening to erupt into violence.
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Gone West
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In September 1926, the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher visits Sybil Sutherby, a school friend now living in Derbyshire as the confidential secretary to a novelist. Suspecting that something is seriously amiss, Sybil has asked Daisy to discretely investigate. Upon arrival, Daisy finds a household of relatives and would-be suitors living off the hospitality of Humphrey Birtwhistle, who had been supporting them through his thrice-yearly, pseudonymous Westerns. When he took ill, though, Sybil took over writing them while he recovered, only to see the sales increase. Now, she fears that someone in the household is poisoning Birtwhistle to keep him ill and Sybil writing the better-paying versions.
Publisher's Summary
In March of 1926, Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher and her friend and collaborator, Lady Lucy Gerald, head off for several days to a stately home reputed to have the best grotto in the country. Working on a book of architectural follies, they plan to research and photograph it.
Leaving her husband and young twins behind, Daisy is expecting a productive weekend at Appsworth Hall, with the only potential difficulty being keeping Lucy from offending the current owner, a manufacturer of plumbing products. Alas, it's not to be quite so simple.
At the home, they find themselves faced with a curious assortment of people, including the abominable, tactless Lord Rydal, who is rumored to be having an affair with one of the guests while in ardent and artless pursuit of the hand in marriage of another. When the grotto explodes with Lord Rydal in it, it's not a question of who would do it―as most who've met him would be sorely tempted―but who actually did do it.
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- MaJo
- 07-12-2017
Great Story
This story reminded me of why I enjoy Daisy. The last few books were disappointing, but Ms Dunn is back in form. The killer was fairly obvious, but the characters were well drawn and Lucy Rayner’s narration was flawless.
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- Victoria J. Mejia-Gewe
- 08-12-2017
Another great Daisy
Carola Dunn presents another strong mystery in Sheer FollySheer Folly is a fun book, and I liked the listening experience. I give this book four stars.
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- Rebuttal to your rebuttal
- 20-01-2018
Set my teeth on edge
The high pitched voices of the narrator gave me a headache. Excruciating! I could only stand a few minutes of it. I almost never don’t finish an audio book but just couldn’t stand this one.
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- Beatrice
- 25-11-2020
5 stars
Sheer Folly is sheer fun. This is another entertaining book in an entertaining cozy mystery series.
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- mysteryreader4
- 01-11-2020
Not one of her besr
I have enjoyed this series so far but this book was excessively long and did not hold my attention well. I did change the narration speed to 1.1 to get the right pace of narration.
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- Philip
- 07-10-2019
one the most enjoyable books in th esries
19 books in an we still enjoy the stories. Better yet the author is improving.
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- MelOregon
- 18-02-2018
fun series
Formulaic but well-written cozy series. have enjoyed them all. Good performance with many convincing character voices.
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- Akhila Nandgopal
- 03-02-2018
Fun sweet Book
it was a nice book i enjoyed the story! it was cheerful and warm and highly recommend
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- bigdjunta
- 31-01-2018
Meh.....again.
Once again I wasn't impressed with this story. I'm finding some things SO ANNOYING and as the plots in this series continue to be weak, I find I can't ignore things in this story that are like an ice pick in my brain. 1. Julia was such an immature, mealy mouthed waste of time and the injured, petulant little girl voice was enough to make me bazooka barf. 2. Daisy is an annoying know it all, and a narcissist craving to be the center of attention. I swear she has a borderline personality disorder. When she berated her husband in front of his peers with "Poor Alec. You can't even scare a third parlor housemaid" I wanted to set her on fire. 3. Lucy's voice......enough said. I'm going to try one more in this series because I'm already so far into it. If I get more of the same I might have to blowup my Samsung to purge the evil out of it.
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- bethany
- 10-01-2018
Nice to have the delightful Lucy and Gerald included!
Excellent characters, strong mystery, very well read. One of my favorites in the series, always love to have Lucy and Gerald featured. This narrator is the quintessential Daisy!
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- Jill Goodman
- 27-12-2017
Sheer Folly
A good story let down by poor reading. The Narrator was rather flat and didn’t seem to be aware of the flow of the language.
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- alan hunt
- 27-01-2018
Drivel;
Would you try another book written by Carola Dunn or narrated by Lucy Rayner? Too long and tedious for a senseless story with an even sillier denouement. Don't waste your money. I'm sorry I did. Since writing the previous sentence I have struggled through the novel again to see if it was any better second time around. It wasn't. One plus for the author.."Sheer Folly" was certainly an apt title.
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