After the Armistice Ball - Hardcover

McPherson, Catriona

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786716088 ISBN 13: 9780786716081

Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub, 2005

Synopsis

Feeling restless in the years after World War I, Scottish gentry wife Dandy Gilver investigates the whereabouts of a cache of stolen diamonds, a case that tests Dandy's scruples and is complicated by the untimely death of a young woman.

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About the Author:

Catriona McPherson was born near Edinburgh and was educated at Edinburgh University. She then worked for five years as a lecturer in the English department of Leeds University. Catriona now teaches part time for the Open University and spends the rest of her time writing. She lives on a farm in Galloway.

From Publishers Weekly:

Starred Review. Set in the early 1920s, British author McPherson's refreshing debut introduces the captivating Dandy Gilver, a well-to-do woman caught between Victorian mores and the exhilarating sense of freedom that followed WWI. With her husband at home and her children away at school, Dandy is bored until a friend asks her to help recover the Duffy family diamonds stolen from a country house after an elaborate armistice ball, artfully depicted in the prologue. Dandy's inquiry into the missing jewels takes a tragic turn after the Duffys' younger daughter, Cara, dies in a fire in a Galloway seaside cottage. Dandy joins forces with Cara's fiancé, Alec Osborne, and the two are soon on the trail of long-hidden family secrets and a brutal murder. Memorable supporting characters, both upstairs and downstairs, plus vivid descriptions of the Scottish landscape enhance a compelling mystery, but it is Dandy who shines as she smoothly and sometimes unscrupulously deals with people at all social levels in her quest for the truth. The unusual conclusion leaves some provocative loose ends that point the way to a sequel. (Sept.)
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About this edition

• Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0786716088
• ISBN 13: 9780786716081
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 303