Force and Fraud (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | Ellen Davitt | knygos.lt

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Outback Australia in the mid-1800s.

When rich, domineering squatter Angus McAlpin is murdered, the obvious suspect is the penniless artist, Herbert Lindsey - who wants to marry his daughter, Flora. McAlpin may have proclaimed that Flora would marry Herbert 'only over his dead body' - and Herbert's bloodstained knife and handkerchief were found near the murder scene - but the artist denies any wrongdoing.

So begins a compelling murder mystery and trial, as the heiress seeks to prove her lover's innocence, and a country town takes sides. Force may have killed Angus McAlpin, but fraud follows murder in a cunning plan to see Herbert Lindsey hanged - by any means necessary. For someone else is determined to marry Flora, to obtain her property and her person; and he will stop at nothing.

Praise for Force and 'Stunning historical mystery. Court scene worthy of Perry Mason' - Kerry Greenwood


Reissue of what is regarded as Australia's first mystery novel, originally published in serial form in the Australian Journal in 1865.

Written in a narrative style which anticipates later developments in the mystery novel, it tells the story of a young artist accused of murdering his fiance's father, who disapproved of their match.

An introduction by Lucy Sussex provides biographical details of the author, a writer and artist who was related by marriage to the Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope. Includes notes.