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Dandy Gilver & an Unsuitable Day For A Murder

Dandy Gilver & an Unsuitable Day For A Murder

by Catriona McPherson

Publisher Hodder & Stoughton

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About the book

Friday 3rd June, 1927

Dear Alec,

'Careful what you wish for, lest it come true' is my new motto, and here is why. I was summoned to Dunfermline, that old grey town, in the matter of a missing heiress.

She had flounced off in a sulk over forbidden love and I, suspecting elopement, was loath to take the job of scouring guesthouses to find the little madam and her paramour.

Before I could wriggle out of it, though, there was a murder in the mix - or was it suicide? I had hardly begun to decide when it happened again. Then I was sacked. Actually sacked! By two separate people, and both dismissals in writing. And that's not even the worst of it, darling: matters here are careering downwards much in the style of a runaway train.

Please hurry - or who knows where it might end,

Dandy xx

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About the Author

Catriona McPherson

Catriona was born in Scotland and lived there until 2010, before immigrating to California, where she lives on Patwin ancestral land.


A former academic linguist, she is now a full-time fiction writer, the multi-award-winning and best-selling author of the Dandy Gilver detective stories, set in Scotland in the 1930s, the Last Ditch mysteries, set in California, and a strand of contemporary standalone novels including Edgar-finalist The Day She Died and Mary Higgins Clark finalists The Child Garden, Quiet Neighbours and Strangers At the Gate.

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