Make-Up For Murder

Mother Paul Investigates

June Wright

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Verse Chorus Press,U.S.
01 February 2025

Fiction & Literature; Crime & Mystery

Mother Paul, the incomparable nun-detective, is faced with her most perplexing case when a former pupil at her convent school is murdered at their annual reunion.

As a schoolgirl Maisie Ryan was often bullied by her peers, but a decade later she's a TV star, the glamorously renamed Rianne May. When she's invited to be guest of honour at Maryhill College's annual reunion, she has a chance to dazzle her old tormentors the way she does her adoring television audience. But as she's holding court at the reunion tea party, old grudges and new jealousies swirl around her

and suddenly one of her tablemates drops dead, poisoned. Was Rianne the intended victim? She evidently thinks so

only that day she'd received a death threat. Rianne flees the scene and cannot be found.

Who is the murderer? And what has happened to Rianne May? Fortunately, the school's principal is Mother Paul, who immediately calls for Detective Inspector Savage. She assisted him (or was it the other way around?) in solving a previous case (Faculty of Murder), and between them the unlikely pair will unravel this one too. But there will be more drama

and more deaths

before the murderer is uncovered.

Moving between the brash new realm of television in the early 1960s and the cloistered atmosphere of a girls' convent school, Make-Up for Murder is the third and final Mother Paul novel and a must-read for all fans of June Wright's blend of intrigue, wit, and psychological suspense.

By: June Wright
Imprint: Verse Chorus Press,U.S.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 133mm, Spine: 10mm
ISBN: 9781891241420
ISBN 10: 1891241427
Pages: 168
Publication Date: 01 February 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

June Wright (19192012) made a splash with her 1948 debut, Murder in the Telephone Exchange, whose sales that year in her native Australia outstripped even those of the reigning queen of crime, Agatha Christie. Wright went on to publish five more mysteries over the next two decades while at the same time raising six children. When she died in 2012 at the age of 92, her books had been largely forgotten, but recent championing of her work by crime historians Derham Groves and Lucy Sussex, combined with reissues of all her novels by Dark Passage Books, has restored Wright to her proper place in the pantheon of crime writers.

Reviews for Make-Up For Murder: Mother Paul Investigates

"""A local queen of crime in the tradition of Dorothy L Sayers and Margery Allingham."" ""Classic English-style mystery . . . packed with detail and menace."" ""Utterly engaging . . . Wright paints a vivid picture of mid-twentieth century mores, fashions, and entertainments."""