
A cozy 1920s mystery as Daisy Dalrymple covers the Henley Regatta and a college rower dies amid class rivalry.
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A cozy 1920s mystery as Daisy Dalrymple covers the Henley Regatta and a college rower dies amid class rivalry.
Daisy Dalrymple visits relatives with fiancé DCI Alec Fletcher, and covers the 1923 Henley Royal Regatta for an American magazine. But tensions escalate between the Ambrose team coxswain Horace Bott -- shopkeeper's son and scholarship student at Oxford -- and rower Basil DeLancey -- the son of an Earl and all-round bounder -- who keels over and dies mid-race.
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Mild romance with fiancé Alec; attraction and relationship, not explicit
Murder during a race and investigation; deaths without graphic gore
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Period social drinking in country-house and regatta settings
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Class tension between scholarship student and aristocratic rower
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Class snobbery and interpersonal hostility among the rowing team
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