TY - BOOK AU - Wright,June AU - Groves,Derham TI - Duck season death SN - 9781891241352 (paperback) AV - PR9619.3.W727 D83 2014 U1 - 823/.914 23 PY - 2015/// CY - Portland, OR PB - Verse Chorus Press KW - Mystery and detective stories KW - FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General KW - bisacsh KW - Women private detectives KW - Murder KW - Investigation KW - Fiction KW - Australian fiction KW - Families KW - Duck shooting KW - Detective and mystery stories KW - Mystery fiction KW - lcgft KW - gsafd KW - Detective and mystery fiction N1 - Part One: Shooters and Suspects -- Part Two: Murder and Motives -- Part Three: The Impossible Remainder; Adult N2 - "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"-- ER -