The soldier's curse / Meg and Tom Keneally.

By: Keneally, Meg [author.]Contributor(s): Keneally, Thomas, 1935- [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Keneally, Meg. Monsarrat series ; [book 1]Publisher: London : Point Blank, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: 367 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781786071996; 1786071991Subject(s): Prisoners -- Australia -- Fiction | Murder -- Investigation -- Australia -- Fiction | Penal colonies -- New South Wales -- Port Macquarie -- Fiction | Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction | Poisoning -- Fiction | Australia -- 19th century -- Fiction | Port Macquarie (N.S.W.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction | AustralianGenre/Form: Detective and mystery fiction. | Historical fiction. | Australian fiction. | Detective and mystery storiesDDC classification: A823.4 LOC classification: PR9619.4.K464 | S65 2017Also issued online.Summary: Far away from his London home, having been transported to Australia and the Port Macquarie penal settlement for second offenders, Hugh Monsarrat hungers for freedom. Originally imprisoned for forging documents to pass himself off as a lawyer, he is now the trusted clerk of the settlement's commandant. His position has certain advantages, but things change when the commandant heads off on assignment and his wife suddenly falls ill. Only when she dies does it become clear she has been slowly poisoned.
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Includes bibliographical references (page 367)

Far away from his London home, having been transported to Australia and the Port Macquarie penal settlement for second offenders, Hugh Monsarrat hungers for freedom. Originally imprisoned for forging documents to pass himself off as a lawyer, he is now the trusted clerk of the settlement's commandant. His position has certain advantages, but things change when the commandant heads off on assignment and his wife suddenly falls ill. Only when she dies does it become clear she has been slowly poisoned.

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