This story was published in 1938, just in time for the 1939 World's Fair in New York! It features Mrs. Boyston Tower, Daisy to her friends. She is the widow of a former governor, and an independent woman, who, unfortunately, has spent the last year convalescing from pneumonia and a broken hip.
During the last year she has been under the care of her nephew, Egleston and his annoying wife, Elfrida, who seem to think Daisy is no longer capable of taking care of herself. Daisy disagrees. She decides to make an escape from her nephew's home, and go to the World's Fair in New York. She stows away in a laundry truck, and somehow manages to get herself on a private train, along with several other random people, where a dead body is discovered.
Somehow, Daisy finds herself trying not only to identify the body, but to solve the murder, all the while avoiding her nephew and his wife, and still find time to enjoy the Fair.
Loved this book! It reminded me of the screw-ball type comedy mysteries of the 1930s and 1940s, with all kinds of unlikely but amusing happenings. It was a little dated, of course, but funny and interesting.
This is part of my 2014 Vintage Mystery BINGO Challenge--Golden--D--read a book by an author you've read before.
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