Carola Dunn

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Carola Dunn (* 1946 in London ) is a British - American writer. She mainly writes historical crime novels and Regency novels . Dunn first grew up in the village of Jordans in southeastern Britain. Later she attended the so-called Friend's School in Saffron Walden, run by Quakers . She studied Russian and French at the University of Manchester and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts . Dunn lived in Fidj and Southern California for several years before moving to Eugene , Oregon in 1992 . She is divorced and has a son.

Novels

Daisy-Dalrymple series

The action of the books is set in Britain in the 1920s.

  • Death at Wentwater Court, 1994 (Miss Daisy and the Dead on the Ice)
  • The Winter Garden Mystery, 1995 (Miss Daisy and Death in the Winter Garden)
  • Requiem for a Mezzo, 1996 (Miss Daisy and the Dead Soprano)
  • Murder on the Flying Scotsman, 1997 (Miss Daisy and the Murder in the Flying Scotsman)
  • Damsel in Distress, 1997 (Miss Daisy and the Kidnapping of the Millionaire)
  • Dead in the Water, 1999 (Miss Daisy and the Dead on the Water)
  • Styx and Stones, 1999 (Miss Daisy and the Dead Professor)
  • Rattle his Bones, 2000 (Miss Daisy and the Murder in the Museum)
  • To Davy Jones Below, 2001 (Miss Daisy and the dead on the luxury liner)
  • The Case of the Murdered Muckraker (2002) (Miss Daisy and the Dead at the Chelsea Hotel)
  • Mistletoe and Murder (2002) (Miss Daisy and the Murder Under the Mistletoe)
  • The 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)
  • Gone West (2012)
  • Heirs of the Body (2013)
  • Superfluous Women (2015)

Cornwall series

The series takes place in the Cornwall region in the 1960s.

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

Regency novels

  • Toblethorpe Manor (1981)
  • Lavender Lady (1983)
  • Angel (1984)
  • The Miser's Sister (1984)
  • Lord Iverbrook's Heir (1986)
  • The Man in the Green Coat (1987)
  • Smuggler's Summer
  • The Frog Earl
  • Byron's Child
  • A susceptible gentleman
  • A poor relation
  • The Fortune Hunters
  • My lord winter
  • Ginnie Come Lately
  • The Tudor Signet
  • Scandal's Daughter
  • The Babe and the Baron
  • The Actress and the Rake
  • Mayhem and Miranda
  • The Improper Governess
  • Crossed quills

Multipart:

  • Miss Hartwell's Dilemma; Two Corinthians
  • Black Sheep's Daughter; Lady in the Briars; Polly and the Prince
  • Miss Jacobson's Journey; Lord Roworth's Reward; Captain Ingram's Inheritance
  • A Lord for Miss Larkin; The Road to Gretna; Thea's Marquis

Web links

Remarks

  1. http://literaryashland.org/?p=877 and http://www.regencyreads.com/online/carola-dunn-c-2.html
  2. http://mayhemandmagic2.blogspot.de/2016/05/an-interview-by-pamela-james-mmcarola.html