Beat not the bones : a tale of terror in the tropics / Charlotte Jay.
Publication details: South Australia : Wakefield, 1992.Description: 228 p. ; 20 cmISBN:- 1862542872
- 9781862542877
- 823.914
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction - Crime | JAY | Available | 066962 |
Total reserves: 0
Signed by the author.
"'People changed; they were no longer recognisable as Australians. Frustrations and misfortunes festered into wounds here, deranged the mind and poisoned the blood.'
Suicide, or murder? In Papua, even the luscious vegetation conspires with the bureaucrats to bewilder Stella. Only deep in the jungle, where the vada men live, can she get to the heart of the mystery.
'Beat Not the Bones' won the first Edgar Allan Poe award of the Mystery Writers' Association of America. (Raymond Chandler's 'The Long Goodbye' won the second.) Charlotte Jay has revised her thriller for its release in Wkefield Crime Classics, the new Australian mystery series." -- Back cover