Duck season death / June Wright ; introduction by Derham Groves.
Publication details: Portland, OR : Verse Chorus Press, 2015.Description: 187 pages : illustrations, portrait, facsimiles ; 20 cmISBN:- 9781891241352 (paperback)
- 823/.914 23
- PR9619.3.W727 D83 2014
- FIC022000
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction - Crime | WRI | Issued | 22/04/2024 | 064233 |
Part One: Shooters and Suspects -- Part Two: Murder and Motives -- Part Three: The Impossible Remainder
"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"--
Adult.