Mystery
Murder on the Flying Scotsman (Daisy Dalrymple #4)
1997·232 pages
A 1920s journalist boards the Flying Scotsman with a runaway child and lands amid an inheritance feud that turns deadly.
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A 1920s journalist boards the Flying Scotsman with a runaway child and lands amid an inheritance feud that turns deadly.
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It is the spring of 1923 and the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple is on her way to a stately home in Scotland to research her next article for Town and Country. On board the Flying Scotsman, the famous London-to-Edinburgh train, Daisy meets an old schoolfellow, Anne Breton. Anne, along with all of her relatives, is en route to visit the deathbed of the family scion and notorious miser, Alistair McGowan. As it currently stands, Alistair's will leaves the entire family fortune to his brother Albert, and...
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Sexual content
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Mild attraction and developing courtship; kissing and fade-to-black tone
Violence & gore
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Murder aboard a train; investigation of death without graphic gore
Profanity
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Rare mild period language consistent with 1920s setting
Substance use
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Social drinking and period alcohol mentions in background
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Magic & witchcraft
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No fantasy magic or witchcraft present
Occult / demonology
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Political content
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Light class and inheritance tensions in 1920s British society
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Family greed and emotional pressure over a will; no graphic abuse
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