Reservation for murder : Mother Paul investigates /
Wright, June,
Reservation for murder : Mother Paul investigates / June Wright ; introduction by Derham Groves. - First American edition. - Portland, Oregon : Verse Chorus Press, 2020. - 245 pages ; 21 cm. - Mother Paul mystery ; 1 . - Wright, June, 1919-2012. Mother Paul mystery ; 1. .
"A Dark Passage book"--Title page verso.
June Wright had already published three popular mysteries by the time she created her most memorable detective, the Reverend Mother Mary St Paul of the Cross. The kindly Mother Paul may seem vague and otherwordly, but little escapes her attention-she has a shrewd grasp of everything that's going on beneath the surface. In this, the first of three Mother Paul novels (originally published in 1958), she is in charge of a residential hostel for young women who work in offices and shops in Melbourne. A tense atmosphere pervades the house-many of the residents have received unpleasant anonymous letters, and there is much speculation as to their author. When Mary Allen finds a stranger stabbed in the garden, who dies after uttering a mysterious name, and a few days later one of the residents is found drowned, an apparent suicide, the tension reaches fever pitch. Is there a connection between these two deaths? Or between them and the letters? The police investigation, abetted by the resourceful Mary Allen, proceeds in fits and starts, but meanwhile Mother Paul pursues her own enquiries.
9781891241406
2020035245
Tourist camps, hostels, etc.--Fiction.
Young women--Fiction.
Anonymous letters--Fiction.
Murder--Investigation--Fiction.
Australian fiction.
Nuns--Fiction.
Murder--Fiction.
Melbourne (Vic.)--Fiction.
Australian fiction
Mystery fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
PR9619.3.W727 / R47 2020
823/.914
Reservation for murder : Mother Paul investigates / June Wright ; introduction by Derham Groves. - First American edition. - Portland, Oregon : Verse Chorus Press, 2020. - 245 pages ; 21 cm. - Mother Paul mystery ; 1 . - Wright, June, 1919-2012. Mother Paul mystery ; 1. .
"A Dark Passage book"--Title page verso.
June Wright had already published three popular mysteries by the time she created her most memorable detective, the Reverend Mother Mary St Paul of the Cross. The kindly Mother Paul may seem vague and otherwordly, but little escapes her attention-she has a shrewd grasp of everything that's going on beneath the surface. In this, the first of three Mother Paul novels (originally published in 1958), she is in charge of a residential hostel for young women who work in offices and shops in Melbourne. A tense atmosphere pervades the house-many of the residents have received unpleasant anonymous letters, and there is much speculation as to their author. When Mary Allen finds a stranger stabbed in the garden, who dies after uttering a mysterious name, and a few days later one of the residents is found drowned, an apparent suicide, the tension reaches fever pitch. Is there a connection between these two deaths? Or between them and the letters? The police investigation, abetted by the resourceful Mary Allen, proceeds in fits and starts, but meanwhile Mother Paul pursues her own enquiries.
9781891241406
2020035245
Tourist camps, hostels, etc.--Fiction.
Young women--Fiction.
Anonymous letters--Fiction.
Murder--Investigation--Fiction.
Australian fiction.
Nuns--Fiction.
Murder--Fiction.
Melbourne (Vic.)--Fiction.
Australian fiction
Mystery fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
PR9619.3.W727 / R47 2020
823/.914
