So Bad a Death (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781891241451)

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.

Author: June Wright
ISBN-10: 1891241451
ISBN-13: 9781891241451
Publisher: Dark Passage
Language: English
Published: 03/17/2015
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.90d