A new heroine for the age, Dora Wildwood is on the run from a potentially disastrous marriage. Her mother is dead and her father too blinded with love of another bride to notice that Dora is in danger of being sucked into a stifling relationship.
Upping sticks Dora is headed to her Godmother’s but fate and circumstance intervene and a brief respite in a library result in her witnessing a murder. Her strong desire to right wrongs, make a living and also to escape the clutches of her persistent fiancé, Dora finds that she is embroiled in a mystery and involved with a mysterious librarian and a contrarian policeman. In between the ghastly murders and controlling would be groom we manage to get some lighter comedic moments that pitch his into more light hearted territory we come to expect from cosy crime.
Great fun to read and enjoy with its period setting and likeable heroine.

I absolutely loved "D is for Death" by Harriet F Townson. Set in the Golden Age, it is exactly how I think murder mystery books should be written. Endearing and inquisitive characters and a funny plot. Look forward to the next one.

The fear of a woman escaping a marriage was very intense and suspenseful, adding in a dead body and mystery to this definitely upped the stakes and made me more immersed.

It is 1935, and Dora Wildwood is about to have the adventure of her life. Determined to escape from an engagement she does not want, Dora plans to seek refuge with her godmother, who is the only person she can think of who might understand her situation.

But before she can safely get to Lady Dreda Uglow, Dora is ambushed by her unwanted fiance, and in a headlong attempt to get away from him, she finds herself in the London Library, where she encountering some new friends, possible allies, and one dead body...

The subsequent murder investigation may lead Dora completely off track in terms of her escape plans, but it does position her well to partake of an entirely new experience. This is an enjoyable story that combines murder mystery with historical novel, and introduces us to a very unusual accidental sleuth.