Review #84
In 1925, the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher, her Scotland Yard detective husband Alec Fletcher, and their two infant children inherit and move to a new, larger house on the outskirts of London. While the couple are delighted with the extra space for their growing family, they’re not sure about their new neighbors.
It seems nearly an idyllic setting until a dead body (found by their dog and the parlor maid) turns up hidden under the bushes of the communal garden.
As they get to know their new neighbors, they find that they really like the Jessups (who are in the wholesale business of selling alcoholic spirits) and really dislike the Bennetts (who are in the business of gossip). The hapless Mr. Lambert, whom they know from a previous American adventure, shows up on their door step because he has been robbed of his passport and money on the trip from New York. He is, now, employed by the U.S. Treasury Department and is on the track of contraband booze, even though bootlegging is not illegal in England.
Daisy and Alec soon become entangled in a case involving bootleggers, American gangsters and black ships (Black Ship refers to a rum-running vessel).
Dunn provides an intriguing view of the Prohibition era from the English perspective, besides casting a witty light on the social changes of the day.
This is a new author for me and I love her characters! I will be reading more of her books!
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