A Dangerous Language
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The Honourable Member for Wentworth failed to arrange a Canberra reception for the international peace delegate, despite repeated requests from his constituents at Woodlands House.
The Immigration Restriction Act (which became known as the White Australia Policy) was not dismantled until 1973.
John Thomas Ley returned to England with Mrs. Brook. In 1947 he was sentenced to death for the torture and murder of John McCain Mudie whom he’d believed to be having an affair with Mrs. Brook. The case was widely reported as “The Chalk Pit Murder”. Before he could hang, Ley was declared insane and sent to Broadmoor Asylum for the Criminally Insane, where he eventually died.
Jemima Fairweather Roche was granted a divorce from Oswald Roche. Rowland Sinclair was named as co-respondent. After the death of her grandmother, Jemima sold the Fairweather property to Wilfred Sinclair before settling permanently in the United States.
Bertram Middleton never did finish his novel but, with practice, his backhand became quite excellent.
The identity of the “Pyjama Girl” continued to be a mystery, until 1944 when Antonio Agostini, a waiter, identified her as his wife Linda and confessed to her murder. While it is almost certain that Agostini did murder his wife, there are still doubts over whether she was in fact the “Pyjama Girl”.
Despite repeated invitations to join the Australian Communist Party, Rowland Sinclair remained, at best or worst, a fellow traveller. Even so, he continued to speak what some called the truth and others considered a dangerous language.
Acknowledgments
A writer rarely acts on her own. There are many parties in the literary conspiracy behind the production of a book. For this, the eighth Rowland Sinclair mystery, the usual suspects line up once again. The fact that this is not their first offence only makes me more grateful.
My husband, Michael, who has aided and abetted me at every stage. My boys, Edmund and Atticus, who are my motive for everything. My old friend, Leith Henry, with whom I consult for more than just the racy bits.
My dad, who is still driving the getaway car. My sister, Devini, who harbours me whenever I’m in the area. My mother, who taught me to read and in doing so started me on this path. My personal aviator, David Tennant, who not only found me a plane but told me how to fly it.
Fellow writer, Dr. Kathryn Fox, who advised me on how and where to stab a man without actually killing him. The incomparable Carmel Shute, who became my informant on Egon Kisch’s time in Melbourne.
All my warm, witty and dangerous cohorts at Sisters in Crime.
My brilliant editor Deonie Fiford, who makes sure the story in my head makes sense on paper; Sofya Karmazina, whose exquisite covers introduce my work to the outside world; Desanka Vukelich, who proofs my manuscripts into shape; and Graeme Jones, who lays out the result.
Sarah Kynaston and Lesley Bocquet, who listen to me ramble about unfolding plots, help me come up with absurdly elaborate cakes for each launch, and ensure I stop writing occasionally to go out to lunch.
My extraordinary agent and friend, Jo Butler, and the Cameron Creswell Agency, who are accessories before, during and after the fact.
The talented, vibrant, generous team at Pantera Press, who have given me the means and opportunity to share my work with readers.
Everybody at the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House, where I spent a month as the Eminent Writer in Residence, wandering the halls and chambers interrogating the staff about where in the House one could most efficiently murder a man and dispose of a weapon. There were rather a lot of possibilities… Parliament it seems is an excellent venue for more than just political assassinations.
The ACT Writers’ Centre and Arts ACT for their support of the Eminent Writer’s Program which not only gave me access to the Museum of Australian Democracy but, for the first time in my writing career, afforded me a month to do little else but write.
The greater community of reviewers, bloggers and readers whose support of my work has allowed me to be a serial offender.
Thank you all for your time, your attention and your enthusiasm.
I am so very grateful.
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Sulari Gentill
Award-winning author Sulari Gentill set out to study astrophysics, ended up graduating in law, and later abandoned her legal career to write books instead of contracts. When the mood takes her, she paints, although she maintains that she does so only well enough to know that she should write.
She grows French black truffles on a farm in the foothills of the Snowy Mountains of NSW, which she shares with her young family and several animals.
Sulari is the author of the award-winning Rowland Sinclair Mysteries, a series of historical crime novels set in the 1930s about Rowland Sinclair, the gentleman artist-cum-amateur detective.
The first in the series, A Few Right Thinking Men, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book. A Decline in Prophets, the second in the series, won the Davitt Award for Best Adult Crime Fiction. Miles Off Course was released in early 2012, Paving the New Road was released later that year and was shortlisted for the Davitt Award for Best Crime Fiction 2013. Gentlemen Formerly Dressed was released in November 2013. The sixth book in the series, A Murder Unmentioned, was Highly Commended for the Davitt Award for Best Adult Crime Fiction 2015, and was shortlisted for the ABIA Small Publisher Adult Book of the Year 2015, and the Ned Kelly Award 2015. A Murder Unmentioned also received the 2015 APPA Platinum Award for Excellence. Give the Devil His Due, the seventh book in the series, was also shortlisted for the Davitt Award for Best Adult Crime Fiction and the ABIA Small Publisher Adult Book of the Year 2016. In November 2016 Sulari released the novella, The Prodigal Son, a free prequel to the series written as a gift for her Rowland Sinclair fans. The latest book in the series, A Dangerous Language is the eighth novel in the series.
Under the name S.D. Gentill, Sulari also writes fantasy adventure, including The Hero Trilogy. All three books in the trilogy, Chasing Odysseus, Trying War and The Blood of Wolves, are out now, and available in paperback, in a trilogy pack, and eBook. Crossing the Lines is Sulari’s first stand-alone novel, and will be released internationally in August 2017.