Dunn, Carola — Black Ship: A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery

New York, St. Martin's Minotaur, 2008. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Scarce in the trade in this state and condition. Sterling condition softcover copy of the Advance Uncorrected Proofs as conveyed to me straight from the author, from Eugene, Oregon, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the Regency period-illustrated covers. The author Carola Dunn is the author of more than 30 Regency romances and another 27 mysteries in the Daisy Dalrymple mysteries that are set in England in the 1920s plus another four Cornish mysteries that are set around 1970. Born and raised in England and with a B.A. in Russian and French from Manchester University, she traveled to Fiji, thence to California thence to the Willamette Valley of Oregon where she made her home to this day. She wrote and published her first novel in 1979, a Regency novel that she sold to Warner Books. 294 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New