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Duck Season Death by June Wright
$23.00 AUD
Category: Crime
June Wright wrote this lost gem in the mid-1950s, but consigned it to her bottom drawer after her publisher foolishly rejected it. Perhaps it was a little ahead of its time? Because while it’s a tour de force of the classic 'country house’ murder mystery, it’s also a delightful romp, poking fun at the c ...Show more
Murder in the Telephone Exchange by June Wright
$28.00 AUD
Category: Crime
First published in 1948, when it was the best-selling mystery of the year in the author's native Australia, "Murder in the Telephone Exchange" stars feisty young operator Maggie Byrnes. When one of her more unpopular colleagues is murdered -- her head bashed in with a "buttinski," a piece of equipment u ...Show more
Reservation for Murder by June Wright
$28.00 AUD
Category: Crime
June Wright's most memorable detective, Mother Paul, might seem a bit otherworldly, but little escapes the kindly nun - she has a shrewd grasp of all that goes on in the hostel for young women she runs in 1950s Melbourne. The atmosphere is already strained by a spate of anonymous letters, when Mary Alle ...Show more
So Bad a Death by June Wright
$28.00 AUD
Category: Crime
The return of Maggie Byrnes, heroine of "Murder in the Telephone Exchange, " finds her married, with a young son, and living in an outer Melbourne suburb. But violent death dogs her footsteps even in apparently tranquil Middleburn. It's perhaps not that much of a surprise when widely disliked local bigw ...Show more
The Devil's Caress by June Wright
$28.00 AUD
Category: Crime
The fourth in Dark Passage's reissue series of crime mysteries by June Wright, The Devil's Caress (originally published in 1952) is an atmospheric psychological thriller set on the wild southern coast of the Mornington Peninsula, outside Melbourne. Young medico Marsh Mowbray is invited to spend the week ...Show more
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