Carola Dunn


Carola Dunn is an English-born American writer of regency romances and detective fiction. Dunn attended Friends' School, Saffron Walden, and graduated from the University of Manchester. She has lived in Eugene, Oregon, since 1992.
Of her 59 books, 32 are regency romances, 4 are part of the Cornish Mystery series featuring "Eleanor Trewynn, a widow who’s retired from international charity work to a village in Cornwall," and 23 are part of the Daisy Dalrymple series.
The Honourable Daisy Dalrymple, a freelance writer, meets and marries Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard 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.
Mrs Trewynn, an Aikido practitioner, often assists her niece, a member of the local constabulary, in solving various local crimes. While the Dalrymple series is set in the 1920s, the Cornish novels are set in the early 1960s.
Although she continues to write Dalrymple novels, Dunn explains her transition from regencies to mysteries and particularly the addition of an older protagonist in the Cornish series with reference to 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."

The Daisy Dalrymple series

"Cosy mysteries set in England in the 1920s"
  1. Death at Wentwater Court
  2. The Winter Garden Mystery
  3. Requiem for a Mezzo
  4. Murder on the Flying Scotsman
  5. Damsel in Distress
  6. Dead in the Water
  7. Styx and Stones
  8. Rattle His Bones
  9. To Davy Jones Below
  10. The Case of the Murdered Muckraker
  11. Mistletoe and Murder
  12. Die Laughing
  13. A Mourning Wedding
  14. Fall of a Philanderer
  15. Gunpowder Plot
  16. The Bloody Tower
  17. Black Ship
  18. Sheer Folly
  19. Anthem for Doomed Youth
  20. Gone West
  21. Heirs of the Body
  22. Superfluous Women
  23. The Corpse at the Crystal Palace
Daisy also appears in short stories:
  1. Manna From Hades
  2. A Colorful Death
  3. The Valley of the Shadow
  4. Buried in the Country