A Few Right Thinking Men (Electronic book text)


The first book of the acclaimed Rowland Sinclair Mysteries. In Australia's 1930s, the Sinclair name is respectable and influential, yet the youngest son Rowland - an artist - has a talent for scandal. Even with the unemployed lining the streets, Rowland lives in a sheltered world... of wealth, culture & impeccable tailoring with the family fortune indulging his artistic passions & friends... a poet, a painter & a brazen sculptress. Mounting political tensions fuelled by the Great Depression take Australia to the brink of revolution. Rowland Sinclair is indifferent to the politics... until a brutal murder exposes an extraordinary & treasonous conspiracy.
""The real enemy is Labor's Jack Lang and the Communist hordes into whose hands he plays... What say I introduce you to some chaps?"""
"What chaps?"""
"Right thinking men. Loyalists who love this country... Rowland, I think you could be moving with the wrong crowd.""
A Rowland Sinclair Novel
"* Shortlisted"" for Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book"""
"* Sulari Gentill WINNER ""of Davitt Award for Best Adult Crime Fiction 2012"""

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The first book of the acclaimed Rowland Sinclair Mysteries. In Australia's 1930s, the Sinclair name is respectable and influential, yet the youngest son Rowland - an artist - has a talent for scandal. Even with the unemployed lining the streets, Rowland lives in a sheltered world... of wealth, culture & impeccable tailoring with the family fortune indulging his artistic passions & friends... a poet, a painter & a brazen sculptress. Mounting political tensions fuelled by the Great Depression take Australia to the brink of revolution. Rowland Sinclair is indifferent to the politics... until a brutal murder exposes an extraordinary & treasonous conspiracy.
""The real enemy is Labor's Jack Lang and the Communist hordes into whose hands he plays... What say I introduce you to some chaps?"""
"What chaps?"""
"Right thinking men. Loyalists who love this country... Rowland, I think you could be moving with the wrong crowd.""
A Rowland Sinclair Novel
"* Shortlisted"" for Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book"""
"* Sulari Gentill WINNER ""of Davitt Award for Best Adult Crime Fiction 2012"""

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Simon & Schuster Australia

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Australia

Release date

October 2011

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Electronic book text

Pages

320

ISBN-13

978-0-9870685-6-9

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9780987068569

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0-9870685-6-3



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