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Wright, June,

Duck season death / June Wright ; introduction by Derham Groves. - Portland, OR : Verse Chorus Press, 2015. - 187 pages : illustrations, portrait, facsimiles ; 20 cm.

Part One: Shooters and Suspects -- Part Two: Murder and Motives -- Part Three: The Impossible Remainder

"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 conventions of the genre. When someone takes advantage of a duck hunt to murder publisher Athol Sefton at a remote hunting inn, it soon turns out that virtually everyone, guests and staff alike, had a good reason for shooting him. Sefton's nephew Charles thinks he can solve the crime by applying the "rules of the game" he's absorbed from his years as a reviewer of detective fiction only the killer evidently isn't playing by those rules. Duck Season Death is a both a fiendishly clever whodunit and a marvelous entertainment"--

Adult.

ISBN: 9781891241352 (paperback)

LCCN: 2014044112

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Mystery and detective stories.
FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General.
Women private detectives.
Murder--Investigation--Fiction.
Australian fiction.
Women private detectives--Fiction.
Families--Fiction.
Duck shooting--Fiction.
Murder--Fiction.
Duck shooting.
Detective and mystery stories.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Mystery fiction.
Mystery fiction.
Mystery fiction
Detective and mystery stories
Detective and mystery fiction.
Mystery fiction
Australian fiction

LC Class. No.: PR9619.3.W727 / D83 2014

Dewey Class. No.: 823/.914