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The Bloody Tower

door Carola Dunn

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Fiction. Mystery. Historical Fiction. HTML: In early 1925, the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher�??recent mother of twins�??resumes her journalistic career by agreeing to write a piece about the Tower of London�??the Bloody Tower�??for an American magazine. Invited to observe the centuries-old ritual Ceremony of the Keys, she's spending the night (her first time away from her babies) since the complex is locked and guarded, and the high walls are surrounded by a disused moat. Having been given a tour of the Crown Jewels, interviewed and observed the Yeoman Warders, and met the Raven Master, Daisy has more than enough material for her article and decides to leave as early as possible the next morning to return to her family. But when walking down the stairs, she almost trips over the dead body of one of the Yeoman Warders. That there's something seriously amiss cannot be denied, due to the pike sticking out of his back. With her husband, Scotland Yard DCI Alec Fletcher assigned to resolve the case, Daisy once again finds herself in the middle of a case of murder mos… (meer)

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Daisy & her husband, DCI Alec Fletcher are involved investigating a murder in the Tower of London.

Daisy is visiting the Tower of London in order to write a series of articles for Town & Country, the morning after the Ceremony of the Keys Daisy finds one of the Yeoman Warders (NOT a "Beefeater") dead at the bottom of the stairs w/ a partisan sticking out of his back.

No one can understand why he was murdered as he was the most liked & well respected commanding officer.

Both Yeomen Warders & Hotsupr Guards (members of the Metropolitan Police) are involved.... There is some interesting history included in the book, including the Yeoman Warder/Ravenmaster.

I found the setting of the incidents in the book a bit confusing, even with the map of the Tower, as it was tiny & I was unable to see portions of it.

I also figured out a main part of the plot..... (

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Auntie-Nanuuq | Jun 4, 2019 |

One of those light mysteries that is mildly entertaining and doesn't use too many brain cells. I liked the setting in the Tower of London - great spot for a murder. (

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JanetNoRules | Sep 17, 2018 |

Like her surname-sake Jessica, Daisy goes somewhere and there's a body. This time she's at the Tower of London by request of her editor and she stays there to see the key ceremony. She wakes early and really wants to go home to her twins but on her way out she finds a body (quelle surprise). Of course her husband is assigned to investigate, but he has to deal with Tower politics as well as multiplying motives and suspects. It also has a few glimpses into the aftereffects of World War I and the impact it ohad on the soldiers.

Relatively predictable but entertaining. (

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wyvernfriend | Jul 4, 2018 |

Starting with the sixteenth book may not be the best introduction to a particular series—I presume that much of the character development may already have occurred, because there's little on display here. Also, while this is billed as being a 'Daisy Dalrymple Mystery', the eponymous detective does very little sleuthing—most of the footwork and an equal amount of the deduction is done by her husband. An easy read on a train ride; while not especially memorable, there was nothing here to put me off from attempting another in this series. (

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siriaeve | Jul 14, 2013 |

Fun little mystery with very likeable characters. (

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Auteursnaam	Rol	Type auteur	Werk?	Status
Dunn, Carola	—	primaire auteur	alle edities	bevestigd
Buzzard, Madelyn	Verteller	Secundaire auteur	sommige edities	bevestigd

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The Bloody Tower

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2007-09-04

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Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher

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Myrtle Tebbit

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Dedicated to all those who work to preserve Britain's and the world's history because,as Sir Walter Raleigh wrote while imprisoned in the Bloody Tower, "We may gather out of history a policy no less wise than eternal; by comparison and application of other men's forepassed miseries with our own like errors and ill deservings."

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"The Tower of London ?" Alec, spreading marmalade on his toast, spoke with a sort of deliberate casualness.

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Fiction. Mystery. Historical Fiction. HTML:

In early 1925, the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher�??recent mother of twins�??resumes her journalistic career by agreeing to write a piece about the Tower of London�??the Bloody Tower�??for an American magazine.

Invited to observe the centuries-old ritual Ceremony of the Keys, she's spending the night (her first time away from her babies) since the complex is locked and guarded, and the high walls are surrounded by a disused moat. Having been given a tour of the Crown Jewels, interviewed and observed the Yeoman Warders, and met the Raven Master, Daisy has more than enough material for her article and decides to leave as early as possible the next morning to return to her family.

But when walking down the stairs, she almost trips over the dead body of one of the Yeoman Warders. That there's something seriously amiss cannot be denied, due to the pike sticking out of his back. With her husband, Scotland Yard DCI Alec Fletcher assigned to resolve the case, Daisy once again finds herself in the middle of a case of murder mos

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