Dandy Gilver and a Bothersome Number of Corps

McPherson, Catriona

ISBN 10: 1628990120 ISBN 13: 9781628990126

Publisher: Center Point Pub, 2014

Synopsis

In this new adventure set in 1920s Scotland, witty, aristocratic sleuth Dandy Gilver has set up shop with her friend Alec Osbourne, forming the detective agency Gilver and Osbourne. At the request of Dandy’s childhood friend, the pair travels to an all-girls school in the small seaside town of Portpatrick to look for the client’s youngest sister, who had been teaching at the school.

About this title

About the Author:

CATRIONA MCPHERSON was born near Edinburgh, where she received her Ph.D. Her previous Dandy Gilver mystery, Dandy Gilver and the Proper Treatment of Bloodstains, won the Sue Feder Memorial Award in 2012. Catriona lives in Davis, California, with her husband and two cats.

From Booklist:

Upper-class Scottish sleuth Dandy Gilver recalls a perfect summer in her teens spent in the bosom of the Lipscott family—the widowed mother and her golden daughters, Aurora, Pearl, and Fleur—when decades later a worried Pearl asks Dandy to see what has gone wrong with Fleur, the adored youngest. Fleur, an imaginative child who became a wild teenager, is now a fearful English teacher at a girls’ school who tells Dandy she’s killed four people. When a woman’s body washes up on a nearby beach, Fleur proclaims this number five, then disappears. As Alec Osborne, Dandy’s detective colleague, looks into the recent departures of several of the school’s instructors, Dandy investigates from her new position on the school staff, and together they try to account for Fleur’s four previous corpses. Dandy’s reminiscences of the Lipscotts cast a lovely patina on the seventh in this fine series, which moves between lighthearted and deadly serious, with intuitive, no-nonsense Dandy dealing with flighty girls and despairing adults with equal aplomb and showing increasing assurance in her professional and personal life. --Michele Leber

About this edition

• Publisher: Center Point Pub
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1628990120
• ISBN 13: 9781628990126
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 463