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Duck Season Death

Duck Season Death

Wright, June

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ISBN10: 1891241354
ISBN13: 9781891241352
Publisher: Dark Passage
Published: Mar 17 2015
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.20 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
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.

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