Title: Gone West
Description: September 1926, and Daisy Dalrymple is in Derbyshire, visiting an old school friend who's currently employed by a novelist as his personal secretary. Sybil Sutherby has asked Daisy to investigate discreetly as she suspects something is seriously amiss with Humphrey Birtwhistle. Upon arrival, Daisy finds a household of relatives and friends all living off the writer's hospitality, as he supports them through his pseudonymous Western sales. Before Daisy can even begin a bit of decent investigating, however, Birtwhistle dies - and Daisy is now faced with a death to untangle and a house full of suspects ...
Subjects: Women journalists, Fiction, Daisy Dalrymple (Fictitious character), History
Places: Great Britain
People: Daisy Dalrymple (Fictitious character)
Time periods: George V, 1910-1936