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Sheer Folly
- A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery
- Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
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Summary
In March of 1926, Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher and her friend and collaborator, Lady Lucy Gerald, head off for several days to a stately home reputed to have the best grotto in the country. Working on a book of architectural follies, they plan to research and photograph it.
Leaving her husband and young twins behind, Daisy is expecting a productive weekend at Appsworth Hall, with the only potential difficulty being keeping Lucy from offending the current owner, a manufacturer of plumbing products. Alas, it's not to be quite so simple.
At the home, they find themselves faced with a curious assortment of people, including the abominable, tactless Lord Rydal, who is rumored to be having an affair with one of the guests while in ardent and artless pursuit of the hand in marriage of another. When the grotto explodes with Lord Rydal in it, it's not a question of who would do it―as most who've met him would be sorely tempted―but who actually did do it.
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- Amazon Customer
- 27-08-23
A good story
The narrator is clear and good. One or two mispronunciations but didn’t really make any difference to my enjoyment of the book
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- Steph H
- 17-12-21
Excellent Storytelling
A lot of the story in this Daisy Dalrymple installment takes place before the actual death, it's unusual for a "murder mystery" genre book but very well done. We get a lot more of the individual characters and so are given the opportunity to become invested before the fact rather than solely after.
A book with a wonderfully happy ending.
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- Claire Kendall-Price
- 07-10-21
One of the Better Daisy Stories
Could have been a number of people. The first half was rather depressing as full of unpleasant characters. Once one of them was 'dispatched' it became much more fun with an OH! right at the end.
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- butler-Whittakers
- 06-10-21
Enjoyable
Well written but audible version too fast. Easily solved by speeding up. Not my favourite DD novel but still good fun.
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- Eric Maggs
- 27-04-23
lots of fun
plenty of laugh out loud moments which more that made up for the mispronunciations.
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- Jill Goodman
- 27-12-17
Sheer Folly
A good story let down by poor reading. The Narrator was rather flat and didn’t seem to be aware of the flow of the language.
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- Lynne M Burke
- 11-08-23
A weak ending
Not as thrilling as many others in this series but I still enjoyed it. The characters are part of my family now.
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- Jeremy Morgan
- 14-09-22
Enjoyed
Back on track for a good plot. However I’m not sure why Daisy is friends with such a selfish, shrewish, self centred and rude woman such as Lucy. She is a snob who always insists on her own way. Gerald and Lucy could have done better!
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- pammy vallance
- 22-04-23
love this
I love listening to theses books 📚 there fantastic the people are fun the writing is superb 😀 👌
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- Robin Beattie
- 18-11-22
Keeps you guessing
Plenty of suspects workings of house order of servants Not recalling what you know proves costly
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