Carola Dunn

Carola Dunn (born November 14, 1946) is an English-born American writer of regency romances and detective fiction.[1] Dunn attended Friends' School, Saffron Walden, and graduated from the University of Manchester.[2] She has lived in Eugene, Oregon, since 1992.[1]

Of her 59 books (as of 2018), 32 are regency romances, 4 are part of the Cornish Mystery series featuring "Eleanor Trewynn, a widow who’s retired from international charity work to a village in Cornwall,"[3] and 23 are part of the Daisy Dalrymple series.

The Honourable Daisy Dalrymple, a freelance writer, meets and marries Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard over the course of several novels in which they work together to solve murder cases. He tries, unsuccessfully, to keep her out of crime investigations because his superiors at the Yard object to her involvement.

Mrs Trewynn, an Aikido practitioner, often assists her niece, a member of the local constabulary, in solving various local crimes. While the Dalrymple series is set in the 1920s, the Cornish novels are set in the early 1960s.

Although she continues to write Dalrymple novels, Dunn explains her transition from regencies to mysteries and particularly the addition of an older protagonist in the Cornish series with reference to her own age: "Regencies generally have young heroines—my oldest was 42. Daisy has been in her 20s for 20 books now. I wanted to write about a protagonist nearer my own age."[3]

Bibliography

The Daisy Dalrymple series

"Cosy mysteries set in England in the 1920s"

  1. Death at Wentwater Court (1994)
  2. The Winter Garden Mystery (1995)
  3. Requiem for a Mezzo (1996)
  4. Murder on the Flying Scotsman (1997)
  5. Damsel in Distress (1997)
  6. Dead in the Water (1999)
  7. Styx and Stones (1999)
  8. Rattle His Bones (2000)
  9. To Davy Jones Below (2001)
  10. The Case of the Murdered Muckraker (2002)
  11. Mistletoe and Murder (2002)
  12. Die Laughing (2003)
  13. A Mourning Wedding (2004)
  14. Fall of a Philanderer (2005)
  15. Gunpowder Plot (2006)
  16. The Bloody Tower (2007)
  17. Black Ship (2008)
  18. Sheer Folly (2009)
  19. Anthem for Doomed Youth (2011)
  20. Gone West (2012)
  21. Heirs of the Body (2013)
  22. Superfluous Women (2015)
  23. The Corpse at the Crystal Palace (2018)

Daisy also appears in short stories:

  • "Unhappy Medium" in Malice Domestic 7 ("available online". Archived from the original on 2006-11-02. Retrieved 2005-05-12.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link))
  • "Storm in a Tea Shoppe" in Crime Through Time ("available online". Archived from the original on 2006-11-02. Retrieved 2005-05-12.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link))

Cornish Mystery series
  1. Manna From Hades (2009)
  2. A Colorful Death (2010)
  3. The Valley of the Shadow (2012)
  4. Buried in the Country (2016)

References
  1. Murez, Cara Roberts (1 July 2018). "The Mysterious Life of Carola Dunn". Register Guard. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
  2. LCAuth record, Library of Congress authorities file.
  3. Battistella, Ed (26 June 2011). "An Interview with Carola Dunn". Literary Ashland. Retrieved 26 September 2019.


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