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Catriona McPherson

The Mirror Dance

By Catriona McPherson - Published 2021

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The Mirror Dance is the 15th of Catriona McPherson’s Dandy Gilver novels. Dandy is a middle-aged mother from the minor nobility who ...Read Review

A Step So Grave (A Dandy Gilver Mystery)

By Catriona McPherson - Published 2019

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Mystery/Crime

Aristocratic, amateur sleuth Dandy Gilver and her family travel to remote Applecross in the Scottish Highlands to meet Mallory, her son’s betrothed ...Read Review

Dandy Gilver and a Spot of Toil and Trouble

By Catriona McPherson - Published 2017

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Mystery/Crime

I enjoy the Dandy Gilver crime series, and this latest offering from McPherson is, as ever, a pleasure to read. Set in Scotland ...Read Review

The Reek of Red Herrings

By Catriona McPherson - Published 2015 Published 2016

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Mystery/Crime

1930: Dandy Gilver and her sidekick, Alec Osborne, take on a daunting task. Several barrels of a prestigious herring processor’s product have been ...Read Review

Dandy Gilver and a Most Misleading Habit

By Catriona McPherson - Published 2016

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Mystery/Crime

I enjoy this historical crime series set in interwar Scotland. In the early books Dandy is bored with her life as the wife ...Read Review

Dandy Gilver & the Unpleasantness in the Ballroom

By Catriona McPherson - Published 2015

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Mystery/Crime

The Dandy Gilver novels are a 1930s pastiche, imitating and gently satirising the detective novels of the Golden Age (Dorothy Sayers, Agatha Christie, ...Read Review

Dandy Gilver and a Bothersome Number of Corpses

By Catriona McPherson - Published 2013

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Mystery/Crime

This is the seventh in McPherson’s 1920s Scottish mystery series featuring Dandy (Dandelion) Gilver. Dandy receives a phone call from an old ...Read Review

Dandy Gilver and a Deadly Measure of Brimstone

By Catriona McPherson - Published 2013

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Mystery/Crime

Dandy, the eponymous heroine, is one half of an unusual detective pairing. Together with her partner Alec Osborne, she is asked to investigate ...Read Review

Dandy Gilver and an Unsuitable Day for a Murder

By Catriona McPherson - Published 2011 Published 2012

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Mystery/Crime

Dumfermline, Scotland, between the World Wars, boasted two competitive department stores: Aitkin Emporium and House of Hepburn. Dandy Gilver, aristocratic lady detective of ...Read Review

The Winter Ground

By Catriona McPherson - Published 2008

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Mystery/Crime

The latest Dandy Gilver mystery is set in Perthshire in 1925/26 on the estate of Albert Wilson, a wealthy brickmaker (“the name tells you ...Read Review

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