So bad a death /
Wright, June,
So bad a death / June Wright ; introduction by Lucy Sussex. - Portland, OR : Verse Chorus Press, 2015. - 284 pages ; 20 cm. - Maggie Byrnes ; 2 .
Sequel to: Murder in the telephone exchange.
"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 bigwig James Holland (who also happens to be Maggie's landlord) is shot, but Maggie suspects that someone is also trying to poison the infant who is his heir, and turns sleuth once more to uncover the culprits. First published in 1949, So Bad a Death is June Wright's second novel, which she originally planned to call Who Would Murder a Baby? Her publishers demurred, but under any title it's a worthy sequel to Murder in the Telephone Exchange. Novelist and crime fiction historian Lucy Sussex contributes an introduction to this reissue, which also includes a revealing interview she conducted with June Wright in 1996"--
Adult.
9781891241451 (paperback)
2014044271
FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths.
Inheritance and succession--Fiction.
Women private detectives--Fiction.
Women detectives--Fiction.
Detective and mystery stories.
Murder--Investigation--Fiction.
Melbourne (Vic.)--Fiction.
Mystery fiction.
Detective and mystery stories
Detective and mystery fiction.
PR9619.3.W727 / S67 2015
823/.914
So bad a death / June Wright ; introduction by Lucy Sussex. - Portland, OR : Verse Chorus Press, 2015. - 284 pages ; 20 cm. - Maggie Byrnes ; 2 .
Sequel to: Murder in the telephone exchange.
"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 bigwig James Holland (who also happens to be Maggie's landlord) is shot, but Maggie suspects that someone is also trying to poison the infant who is his heir, and turns sleuth once more to uncover the culprits. First published in 1949, So Bad a Death is June Wright's second novel, which she originally planned to call Who Would Murder a Baby? Her publishers demurred, but under any title it's a worthy sequel to Murder in the Telephone Exchange. Novelist and crime fiction historian Lucy Sussex contributes an introduction to this reissue, which also includes a revealing interview she conducted with June Wright in 1996"--
Adult.
9781891241451 (paperback)
2014044271
FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths.
Inheritance and succession--Fiction.
Women private detectives--Fiction.
Women detectives--Fiction.
Detective and mystery stories.
Murder--Investigation--Fiction.
Melbourne (Vic.)--Fiction.
Mystery fiction.
Detective and mystery stories
Detective and mystery fiction.
PR9619.3.W727 / S67 2015
823/.914
