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A Few Right Thinking Men
(2010)(A House Divided)
(The first book in the Rowland Sinclair series)A novel by Sulari Gentill
The first Rowland Sinclair mystery
Shortlisted for Commonwealth Writers’ Prize
It’s the early 1930s and a great Depression is engulfing the world, spawning misery and discontent. In Australia, tensions are mounting as the Far Right makes inroads which threaten national stability.
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. But their idyll is shattered when a vicious murder exposes a treacherous conspiracy… one which Rowland 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.
'A sparkling crime series… Evelyn Waugh meets Agatha Christie...' - The Age
'Gentill has turned her deft touch to weave little-known details of Australian political intrigue into an engrossing, easy-read mystery novel' - Daily Telegraph
Genre: Historical Mystery
Shortlisted for Commonwealth Writers’ Prize
It’s the early 1930s and a great Depression is engulfing the world, spawning misery and discontent. In Australia, tensions are mounting as the Far Right makes inroads which threaten national stability.
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. But their idyll is shattered when a vicious murder exposes a treacherous conspiracy… one which Rowland 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.
'A sparkling crime series… Evelyn Waugh meets Agatha Christie...' - The Age
'Gentill has turned her deft touch to weave little-known details of Australian political intrigue into an engrossing, easy-read mystery novel' - Daily Telegraph
Genre: Historical Mystery
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