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Loading... The Bloody Towerby Carola Dunn
  
No current Talk conversations about this book.  Auntie-Nanuuq | Jun 4, 2019 |    ) JanetNoRules | Sep 17, 2018 | Relatively predictable but entertaining. (  ) wyvernfriend | Jul 4, 2018 |  ) siriaeve | Jul 14, 2013 | ) Bookish59 | Jan 4, 2013 | no reviews | add a review
Belongs to SeriesDaisy Dalrymple (16)
Fiction.
Mystery.
Historical Fiction.
HTML: In early 1925, the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcherâ??recent mother of twinsâ??resumes her journalistic career by agreeing to write a piece about the Tower of Londonâ??the Bloody Towerâ??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 No library descriptions found. |
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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..... (