Corpse at the Crystal Palace (Daisy Dalrymple Series, Book #23) by Dunn, Carola - 2018

April 1928. The Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher is visited in London by her young cousins, and on their list of must-see sights is the famous Crystal Palace. Built originally in 1851 for the Great Exhibition, it is now a popular destination, set in a park perfect for family outings, and featuring a display of monstrous dinosaur sculptures. Upon discovering that her children's nanny, Mrs. Gilpin, has never seen the Palace, Daisy decides to make a day of it, bringing her cousins, her three-year-old twins, her stepdaughter, Belinda, the nursery maid, and Nanny Gilpin.

But this ordinary outing soon goes awry when Mrs. Gilpin retires to the ladies' room and fails to return. When Daisy goes to look for her, she doesn't find her nanny but instead the body of a stranger, also dressed in a nanny's uniform.

Meanwhile, Belinda and the cousins spot Mrs. Gilpin chasing after yet another nanny. Intrigued, they trail the two through the vast Crystal Palace and into the park. After briefly losing sight of their quarry, they stumble across Mrs. Gilpin lying unconscious in a small lake inhabited by huge concrete dinosaurs.

When she comes to, Mrs. Gilpin can't remember what happened after she left the twins in the nursery maid's care. Daisy's husband, Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard, finds himself embroiled in the investigation of the murdered nanny, and worried about her children's own injured nanny, Daisy is determined to help. But there are too many nannies, and first Daisy has to discover the identity of the third nanny -- the presumed murderer -- and what drove the amnesic Mrs. Gilpin to desert her charges and follow that mysterious missing third nanny in the first place.

Minotaur Books Hardcover, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 2018.

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