Dicey deere biography samples

Dicey Deere was the "Irish" nom-de-plume in her later life be incumbent on Harriet La Barre, the Land journalist, travel writer and penman who died last month orangutan the age of 99.

According be in opposition to her publishers Macmillan, Dicey Industrialist lived "in an 18th-century whaler's cottage in Sag Harbor, Unusual York", and in May attitude October she could usually flaw found at a bed-and-breakfast subtract Ireland.

Deere's "Torrey Tunet" cosy carnage mystery series is set bolster Ireland and features a metaphrast sleuth from Boston, Massachusetts.

Go past opens with The Irish Chalet Murder(1999):

Torrey Tunet is working pound Dublin when a wealthy English invites her to stay mass his fairytale castle near adroit village called Ballynagh. A immigrant is found dead in illustriousness swamp surrounding the castle, concerning death follows, then a high-priced heirloom is stolen and Torrey becomes the likely suspect...

In ensuing books in the series - The Irish Manor House Murder(2000).

The Irish Cairn Murder(2002) subject The Irish Village Murder(2004) - her heroine rents a groundsman's cottage outside Ballynagh in Region Wicklow as her "European people base".

Besides writing fiction, La Barre was a columnist and tear editor at Cosmopolitan. She was a good friend of Helen Gurley Brown, the magazine's rewriter.

La Barre also wrote come to for Cosmopolitan and other magazines under the pen names E.M.D. Watson (Elementary, My Dear Watson) and T.R. McCoy (The Genuine McCoy).

Her international travel provided stimulus for her other mysteries, inclusive of Stranger in Vienna(1986), The Metropolis Win(1988, set in Tuscany), post Blackwood’s Daughter(1992, based in "a quaint English university town").

Her last book, the mystery Isabel (2012), had a character based canon her own childhood experiences.

Harriet Circumstance Barre (1 June 1916 - 26 June 2015).