Carola Dunn: Styx and Stones (UK 2010)

From the Publisher:
When malice turns to murder...
The hot summer heat could put anyone anyone on edge but to Daisy Dalrymple, it does seem that her brother-in-law, Lord John Frobisher, is exceptionally tense - and with good reason. Someone with an evil sense of humour is sending him a series of poisoned pen letters that threaten to reveal racy secrets which could ruin him completely.

Promising to protect Lord John from public scandal, Daisy travels to his village in Kent only to discover it's teeming with enough gossip, resentment and intrigue to make everyone a suspect... or victim. But then a murder is committed, and Daisy is forced to find the killer before the ink dries on her own death warrant!

Carola Dunn: Styx and Stones. A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery. Robinson, ISBN: 9781849014922 (September, 2010), 261 p., £6.99.

Carola Dunn: Styx and Stones (USA 2002)

From the Publisher:
Unflappable flapper and Town & Country scribe Daisy Dalrymple has delighted fans with her investigations among the shell-shocked, post-World War I elite of England. Now, Carola Dunn's clever heroine is back, searching for a killer whose vicious pen matches a murderous heart...

Styx And Stones
The uncomfortable summer heat could put anyone on edge, but to Daisy Dalrymple, it does seem that her brother-in-law, Lord John Frobisher, is exceptionally tense - and with good reason. Someone with a rather nasty sense of humor is sending him a series of "poison pen" letters that threaten to reveal racy secrets which could ruin him completely. Promising to protect Lord John from public scandal, Daisy travels to his quaint Kent village and discovers it's teeming with enough gossip, resentment and intrigue to make everyone a suspect -- and a potential blackmail victim. The sin afoot in the country makes Daisy's bohemian Chelsea neighborhood seem positively prim. It isn't long before malice turns to murder, and the town vicar is found bludgeoned by a mysteriously fallen stone cherub. Someone isn't just playing games anymore, and Daisy is determined to find a malevolent avenging angel before the ink dries on her own death warrant...

Carola Dunn: Styx and Stones. A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery. Kensington Pub., ISBN: 157566755X (November, 2002), 224 p., $5.99.

Carola Dunn: Styx and Stones (USA 1999)

From the Publisher:
In the 1920's, in post-WWI England, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple, newly married to Detective Inspector Alec Fletcher, is asked by her brother-in-law to discreetly investigate a series of poisoned pen letters that many of the local villagers have been receiving. When the pompous and unbearable brother of the local vicar is killed by a very large rock dropped on his head from a great height, it seems clear to all that this campaign of gossip has escalated to murder. With the help of her husband, who'd rather she not get involved in murder, Daisy undertakes to uncover the identity of the viper in the local nest is and who that person has driven to murder before the murderer strikes a second time.

Carola Dunn: Styx and Stones. A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery. St. Martin's Press, ISBN: 0312205929 (August, 1999), 231 p., $22.95.