The Winter Garden Mystery by Carola Dunn

This is, I think, chronologicaly the second of Miss Dunn's detective stories featuring the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple and Detective Chief Inspector Fletcher of Scotland Yard. Daisy, in pursuit of her work as a feature writer for Town and Country magazine, is invited to Occles Hall in Cheshire and whilst being given a tour of the grounds her inquisitivness leads to the discovery of the body of a missing parlour maid. Shocked by the casual nature of the investigation carried out by the local police she phones DCI Fletcher whom she had met during "The Death at Wentwater Court". The duo pursue the murderer down all the usual blind alleys until an unusualy violent conclusion is reached. Another excellent mystery from Miss Dunn which I thoroughly enjoyed.