Carola Dunn (born November 14, 1946) is a

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writer of

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s and

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Life

Dunn attended

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, and graduated from the

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authorities file. After university, she relocated to the United States and married an American. She has lived in

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since 1992.

Books

Of Dunn’s 59 books (as of 2018), 32 are regency novels and 27 mysteries (of which in turn, 23 are part of the Daisy Dalrymple mystery series, and four belong to the Cornish Mystery series featuring Eleanor Trewynn, a widow and former international charity worker who has retired to

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). In the Daisy Dalrymple series, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple, a

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, meets and marries Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher of

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over the course of several novels in which they work together to solve murder cases. He tries, unsuccessfully, to keep her out of crime investigations because his superiors at the Yard object to her involvement. The series is set in the 1920s. In the Cornish Mysteries, Mrs. Trewynn, an

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practitioner, assists her niece, a member of the local

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, in solving various local crimes. The novels are set in the early 1960s. Although she has continued to write the popular Dalrymple novels, Dunn explained her transition from regencies to cozies to mysteries featuring an older protagonist as being related her own age: "Regencies generally have young heroines — my oldest was 42. Daisy has been in her 20s for 20 books now. I wanted to write about a protagonist nearer my own age."

Selected Bibliography

The Daisy Dalrymple series

# ''Death at Wentwater Court'' (1994) # ''The Winter Garden Mystery'' (1995) # ''Requiem for a Mezzo'' (1996) # ''Murder on the Flying Scotsman'' (1997) # ''Damsel in Distress'' (1997) # ''Dead in the Water'' (1999) # ''Styx and Stones'' (1999) # ''Rattle His Bones'' (2000) # ''To Davy Jones Below'' (2001) # ''The Case of the Murdered Muckraker'' (2002) # ''Mistletoe and Murder'' (2002) # ''Die Laughing'' (2003) # ''A Mourning Wedding'' (2004) # ''Fall of a Philanderer'' (2005) # ''Gunpowder Plot'' (2006) # ''The Bloody Tower'' (2007) # ''Black Ship'' (2008) # ''Sheer Folly'' (2009) # ''Anthem for Doomed Youth'' (2011) # ''

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'' (2012) # ''Heirs of the Body'' (2013) # ''Superfluous Women'' (2015) # ''The Corpse at the Crystal Palace'' (2018) Short stories * "Unhappy Medium" in ''Malice Domestic 7'' () * "Storm in a Tea Shoppe" in ''Crime Through Time'' ()

Cornish Mystery series

# ''Manna From Hades'' (2009) # ''A Colorful Death'' (2010) # ''The Valley of the Shadow'' (2012) # ''Buried in the Country'' (2016)

References

External links

Official website
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dunn, Carola Writers from Eugene, Oregon British emigrants to the United States People educated at Friends School Saffron Walden American romantic fiction writers American crime fiction writers 1946 births Living people Place of birth missing (living people) American women novelists 20th-century American novelists 21st-century American novelists Women romantic fiction writers Women crime fiction writers 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American women writers Novelists from Oregon