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'When someone takes advantage of a duck hunt to murder publisher Athol Sefton at a remote hunting inn, it soon turns out that almost everyone, guests and staff alike, had good reason to shoot him. Sefton’s nephew Charles believes he can solve the crime by applying the traditional “rules of the game” he’s absorbed over years as a reviewer of detective fiction. Much to his annoyance, however, the killer doesn’t seem to be playing by those rules, and Charles finds that he is the one under suspicion.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Anthology of the crime fiction works of Dorothy June Wright.

The final in the Mother Paul mysteries.

"Freshettes" at Brigid Moore Hall, a girls' hostel in the University of Melbourne, are shocked when new arrival Judith Mornane who announces that she intends to discover her sister's murderer. Her sister, Maureen, had mysteriously disappeared from the hostel the year before, at about the same time that a professor's wife had accidentally drowned. It is left to newly arrived Warden, Mother Paul, and Elizabeth Drew, the Humanities tutor, to draw the police's attention to possibilities they might not have considered.

The girls occupying a business girls' hostel run by Mother Paul are caught up in a mystery when anonymous letters begin circulating and then a man's body is found in the hostel grounds.

Series of murder mysteries in which the sleuth is Reverend Mother Mary St Paul of the Cross.

A female doctor finds herself up against doctors who seems to revel in their power over life and death.

'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.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (Verse Chorus Press edition)

'June Wright’s debut stars feisty young telephonist Maggie Byrnes. When one of her more unpopular colleagues 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. A couple of her co-workers are acting strangely, and Maggie is convinced she has a better chance of figuring out who is responsible for the killing than the 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 in line. ' (Publication summary)