Wealthy Australian artist Rowland Sinclair enjoys a comfortably bohemian existence which he shares with old allies - a poet,a fellow painter and a brazen sculptress.
It's the early 1930s and a great Depression is engulfing the world,spawning misery and discontent. Tensions are mounting as the Far Right makes inroads which threaten national stability.
Rowland's comfortable idyll is shattered when a vicious murder exposes a treacherous conspiracy... one which he and his redoubtable colleagues find themselves obliged to investigate.
Sulari Gentill expertly weaves real events into her tension-fuelled murder mysteries. Rowland Sinclair and his friends are destined to become long-haul companions for lovers of mystery fiction and world history.
Publisher: Oldcastle Books LtdISBN: 9780857303578Number of pages: 384Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm
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An engrossing,easy-read mystery novelThis is an engaging tale. The writing is witty and assured,confidently claiming the historical territory and depicting the social groups with a knowledgeable affectionI must confess I've become rather fond of artist Roland Sinclair and his bohemian friends who divide their time globetrotting,solving murder mysteriesGentill has written an absorbing story about a crucial but underwritten slice of Australian historyA sparkling crime series...Evelyn Waugh meets Agatha Christie
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