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Beat Not the Bones

Beat Not the Bones

A tale of terror in the tropics

Charlotte Jay

People changed; they were no longer recognisable as Australians. Frustrations and misfortunes festered into wounds here, deranged the mind and poisoned the blood.

Suicide, or murder? Newly arrived in Papua, where even the luscious vegetation conspires with the bureaucrats to bewilder her, Stella Warwick is determined to prove her husband did not take his own life. Defying the patronising concern of officials, she ventures deep into the jungle, striding ever closer to the horrifying heart of the mystery.

The Wakefield Crime Classics series revives forgotten or neglected gems of crime and mystery fiction by Australian authors. Many of the writers have established international reputations but are little known in Australia.

'The Wakefield Crime Classics series is marvellous … a wonderful collection of writing that should not have been overlooked in this country in the first place.' - Terry O'Connor, Courier Mail

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Charlotte Jay was born Geraldine Mary Jay in 1919 in Adelaide, where she died in 1996. She spent decades travelling, living and writing in England, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the Pacific, and worked as an oriental art dealer. She received international acclaim early, when her thriller Beat Not the Bones, published under the name Charlotte Jay, won the inaugural Edgar Allen Poe award of the Mystery Writers of America in 1952. As Charlotte Jay, she wrote numerous mystery novels set in exotic locales. She published straight novels as Geraldine Halls. The famous American critic Dorothy B. Hughes described her as 'one of the most important writers of far-off places and their mysterious qualities'.

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PAGE COUNT   228
DIMENSIONS   200 x 130 mm

  • 'This might easily scare you out of your wits. Extremely well-handled mystery, authentic horror and atmosphere that closes in like jungle heat.' - San Francisco Chronicle

  • 'Charlotte Jay works you up to the revelation of a horrible secret, and the secret turns out to be the horrible surprise you hoped it would be.' - New York Times Book Review

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