Give the Devil His Due

A fascinating historical mystery by Sulari Gentill, author of #1 LibraryReads pick The Woman in the Library

Winner of the 2018 Ned Kelly Award for Best Mystery

For fans of Rhys Bowen, Kerry Greenwood and Jacqueline Winspear comes an adventure-packed romp that threads 1934 Sydney's upper class and its seedy underworld.

Wealthy Rowland Sinclair, an artist with leftist friends and a free-wheeling lifestyle, reluctantly agrees to a charity race. He'll drive his beloved yellow Mercedes on the Maroubra Speedway, renamed the Killer Track for the lives it has claimed. His teammates are a young Errol Flynn and the well-known driver Joan Richmond. It's all good fun. But then people start to die...

The body of a journalist covering the race is found murdered in a House of Horrors. An English blueblood with Blackshirt affiliations dies in a Maroubra crash. Reporters stalk Rowly for dirt while bookmakers are after an edge. When someone takes a shot at him--it could be anyone. Then the police arrest one of Rowly's housemates for murder.

For fans of Golden Age mysteries--but with a bohemian twist--this historical novel features a riveting crime, a wry, almost British sense of humor, and an amateur sleuth you can't help but root for.

Other Rowland Sinclair Mysteries:

A Few Right Thinking Men

A Decline in Prophets

Miles off Course

Paving the New Road

A Murder Unmentioned

Gentlemen Formerly Dressed

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
Published: 01/06/2020
ISBN: 9781464207037
Pages: 400
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.00d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 11/04/2019
Booklist 12/01/2019 pg. 30