Dead in the water

Description:

May the best man die! July, 1923, and Daisy has been invited by an American magazine to cover the Henley Regatta. But unknown to her, she steps right into a class war between two members of the Oxford rowing team. Cox Horace Bott - a shopkeeper's son and scholar student - has always hated rower Basil DeLancy - younger son of an earl and all-round cad and bully. And after a particularly brutal public humiliation by DeLancy, Bott swears revenge - so when DeLancy keels over and dies mid-race, it would seem he's made good on his promise. Yet Daisy isn't convinced, and with the help of her fiance Detective Inspector Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard, she dives into a tangled web of jealousies and secrets, where appearances are everything and good breeding may just be a cover for a killer intent on keeping Daisy mum forever.

subjects: Daisy Dalrymple (Fictitious character),  Fiction,  Women journalists,  History,  Dalrymple, daisy (fictitious character), fiction,  England, fiction,  Women journalists, fiction,  Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths

People: Daisy Dalrymple (Fictitious character)

Places: Great Britain

Times: George V, 1910-1936