Murder in the telephone exchange / June Wright.
Series: Maggie Byrnes. 1 Publication details: Portland, OR : Verse Chorus Press, 2013.Description: 329 pages : 1 portrait ; 21 cmISBN:- 9781891241376
- 1891241370
- Women detectives -- Victoria -- Melbourne -- Fiction
- Murder -- Investigation -- Victoria -- Melbourne -- Fiction
- FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths
- FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General
- Detective and mystery stories
- Women detectives -- Fiction
- Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction
- Melbourne (Vic.) -- Fiction
- Australian
- A823.2 23
- PR9619.3.W727 M87 2014
- FIC022040 | FIC022000
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Vol info | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction - Crime | WRI | Byrnes Bk.1 | Available | 057408 |
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"A Dark Passage book" -- Title page verso.
Murder in the Telephone Exchange stars feisty young "hello girl" Maggie Byrnes. When an unpopular colleague at Melbourne Central is murdered - her head bashed in with a buttinsky, a piece of equipment used to listen in on phone calls - Maggie resolves to turn sleuth. Some of her co-workers are acting strangely, and Maggie is convinced she has a better chance of figuring out the killer's identity than the rather stodgy police team assigned to the case, who seem to think she herself might have had something to do with it. But then one of her friends is murdered too, and it looks like Maggie might be next.
Originally published London : Hutchinson, 1948.