Aunt Dimity's Death (Aunt Dimity Mystery)
by Nancy Atherton
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Author: Nancy AthertonEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1993-11-01
ISBN: 0140178406
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Book Review: Orienteering, or Using a Compass and a Map
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a better written than usual mystery story. Nancy Atherton has chosen to write a series with an English theme in an English style and it comes off beautifully.
The narrator is surprised to learn that Aunt Dimity has died because she believed Aunt Dimity was a fictitious character created by her mother. The death is reported by Willis and Willis. The law firm occupies an old mansion. The two Willises have looked forward to meeting Lori Shepherd. The Willises have no servant problem. They have law students.
As she had planned, Aunt Dimity's appearance in the story is a surprise. She was an English woman, a Miss Westwood. In receiving her letters, in a sense from the dead, Lori also receives a task, to unravel the mystery and write a forward to childhood stories she has been told by her mother.
Miss Westwood requires that Lori write an introductory essay to a collection of Aunt Dimity tales. Lori is driven around by the younger of the two lawyers in his father's Silver Shadow. She needs to complete some errands prior to undertaking a Westwood prescribed trip to England. Her means are so limited that it takes her only twenty minutes to pack. She tells her apartment mates, temp service, and a former boss of the proposed journey. She travels to Maine to see her good friend, Meg Thompson.
The cottage in England, their destination, (the younger Willis, Bill is accompanying her to England), is located in Finch. It is lovely, although it seems to be too good to be true. Lori finds there archive boxes, her mother's letters, her mother's life. A neighbor gives Lori her mother's recipe for oatmeal cookies. Derk and Emma Harris, the neighbors, and Bill and Lori use the toasting forks in the cottage for the crumpets. Derk and Emma and Bill and Lori entertain the Pym sisters, twin daughters of the vicar now about one hundred years old. The Pyms have long memories.
There is a surprise in the book and I will not disclose it and spoil the fun. It has a certain magic. Anyone who has listened carefully to a parent's stories, and I have a talkative one, will appreciate this book. Other relationships spotlighted in this book are youthful friendships and love.
Summary of Aunt Dimity's Death (Aunt Dimity Mystery)
...Until the Dickensian law firm of Willis & Willis summons her to a reading of the woman's will. Down-on-her-luck Lori learns she's about to inherit a siazable estate--if she can discover the secret hidden in a treasure trove of letters in Dimity's English country cottage. What begins as a fairy tale becomes a mystery--and a ghost story--in an improbably cozy setting, as Aunt Dimity's indominable spirit leads Lori on an otherworldly quest to discover how, in this life, true love can conquer all.
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