DANDY GILVER AND THE PROPER TREATMENT OF BLOOD STAINS

Book ID/图书代码： 06400010B35227

English Summary/英文概要： 1st May 1926 - Dear Alec,
Just when those who should be working are all downing tools for this wretched strike (and I still can’t believe it – I mean to say: riots, Alec – in Edinburgh of all places) guess who is setting her virgin shoulder to its very first wheel?
I am dressed in serge and sensible footwear, sleeping in an iron bed and dining off pickled tongue at six o’clock each day. I am, in short, that nice young Mrs Balfour’s new maid. But don’t worry, Alec dear: things haven’t got as bad as all that. It’s just that that nice young Mr Balfour is going to kill his wife. At least, she thinks so, and the more I hear about him from butler, cook and bootboy the more I’m inclined to agree.

So I’m undercover, in disguise, bent upon foiling. And jolly hard work it is too – tomorrow is my half-day free if you’d care take me out for a restorative bun. (Every maid needs a beau to buy buns for her.)
Yours,
Dandy xx

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 1926年5月1日
親愛的Alec，
我真不敢相信，整個愛丁堡都停止運轉了，我是說，工人們在舉行罷工！猜猜這回誰聖潔的肩膀將第一個被輪子碾過？
我正穿著嗶嘰布料的鞋子睡在一張鐵板床上，每天6點起床吃醃列早餐。我是年輕漂亮的Balfour太太的新女僕。不過別擔心，親愛的Alec，事情並沒有想像得那麼糟。只是Balfour太太認為她英俊帥氣的丈夫要殺死她，而我在從男管家、廚師和穿馬靴的男孩那裏聽說了有關Balfour先生的事後，也這樣認同了Balfour太太的觀點。
所以呢，我就是臥底，一邊愉快地工作著，一邊要想方設法挫敗Balfour先生的陰謀。明天我有半天假期，你願意帶我去買一些可口的小點心麼？（每個姑娘都會需要一個帥氣的小夥子為她買些糕點。）
你的Dandy
(Ruby & Sandy)

Awards/获奖情况：亞馬遜五顆星評價！

’McPherson is on to a winner... The period detail is accomplished and convincing, the crime is neatly convoluted and McPherson’s prose bristles with clever asides under a lucid surface... I can’t wait for her next adventure.’---Scotland on Sunday on AFTER THE ARMISTICE BALL

’What a tonic’---Fiona Walker

’Dandy Gilver is a delightful heroine’---My Weekly

’Compelling’---Publishers Weekly starred review

’Delightful’---Herald on THE WINTER GROUND

’Dan Brown meets Barbara Pym . . . Dandy is brisk, baffled, heroic, kindly, scandalised and - above all - very funny’---Guardian

’Dandy Gilver is an enthralling heroine; part Dorothy Parker, part Miss Marple, utterly engaging. [Catriona] can send chills up your spine and provoke a fit of the giggles in the space of a few short pages. Absolutely wonderful’---Kirsty Scott

’A subtle detonation of the cosy genre... an acute sense of period, sharp observation of the mores of the day (both above and below stairs), a nicely-judged infusion of humour and a winning heroine.’---Independent

About the Author/作者介绍： Catriona McPherson，1965年出生于蘇格蘭，曾就讀于愛丁堡大學。她獲得了語言學博士學位，在開始寫作前曾是一名大學講師。
她的第一本Dandy Gilver系列小說入圍了2005年 CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger ，第二本則獲得2007年度Theakston偵探小說獎。目前Catriona是一名專職作家，居於蘇格蘭的一個農場裏。

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