TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wright,June
AU  - Sussex,Lucy
TI  - So bad a death
SN  - 9781891241451 (paperback)
AV  - PR9619.3.W727 S67 2015
U1  - 823/.914 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Portland, OR
PB  - Verse Chorus Press
KW  - FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Inheritance and succession
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Women private detectives
KW  - Women detectives
KW  - Detective and mystery stories
KW  - Murder
KW  - Investigation
KW  - Melbourne (Vic.)
KW  - Mystery fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Detective and mystery fiction
KW  - lcfgt
N1  - Sequel to: Murder in the telephone exchange; Adult
N2  - "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"--
ER  -