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"I really, really enjoyed the book. It was an absolute page-turner, rising tension, as well as a lovely mystery yarn." - Karen Joy Fowler -- Winner of the 1997 Ditmar Award for Best Novel Shortlisted for the Ned Kelly Award -- A mystery within a mystery. Unemployed university graduate Mel Kirksley is hired to discover the author of an anonymous crime novel from the 1860s. What she finds is nothing less than a true-life detective story, a thinly described autobiographical tragedy set against the backdrop of the Gold Rush. As Mel digs deeper, the line between biographer and subject starts to fade, pulling Mel deeper into a maelstrom where past and present are thrown together. -- "An ingenious well-paced mystery story." - Brenda Niall, The Age
The Scarlet Rider, by Lucy Sussex- Amazon Sales Rank: #6026629 in Books
- Published on: 2015-06-15
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.02" h x .71" w x 5.98" l, 1.02 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 316 pages
From Publishers Weekly A mystery within a mystery, this literary detective novel set in Australia begins when unemployed college graduate Mel Kirksley bumps into her "almost step-mother," who knows of a perfect temporary job. Soon, Mel is hired by Roxanna Press, a feminist publishing company, to sleuth out the name of an anonymous author whose 1865 novel was serialized in the Tolletown Chronicle newspaper. On a hunch, Mel solves an acrostic puzzle in the novel's opening lines of poetry, discovers the author's name, Melvina Mary Yuill, and becomes convinced that she, Melvina Marie Kirksley, is related to the mysterious writer. Further research reveals the novel to be a thinly disguised autobiographical tragedy: set in a mining town during the Australian Gold Rush, it relates the story of Red Meg, a tavern-keeper, her lover, Constable Anysley Dacre of the mounted police, and the misogynistic Chief Inspector James Renfrew Justperson, who connived to keep them apart. Mel is suddenly haunted by strange dreams, which thrust her into the scenery of the Victorian novel, and memory lapses, one of which results in her bringing home a kangaroo tail for dinner instead of a steak. Not surprisingly, her odd behavior disrupts the delicate balance of friendship between her and her two roommates, medical student Marc, who is also her lover, and Mayzee, a possessive and manipulative dialysis patient. One coincidence follows another, until Mel runs smack into an Aynsley Dacre look-alike who turns out to be the fictional character's real-life counterpart's descendent. As a first novelist, Sussex shows a flair for lively narrative, but too many coincidences and an unsatisfying ending detract from her original premise. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews A first novel from the Australian author of the biography In Search of Mary Fortune (not reviewed) is an uneven but agreeably loopy literary detective story. Unemployed Mel's moping is interrupted when she runs into Nola, one of her dead father's ex-girlfriends. Nola's now office manager of Roxana Press, a feminist publisher, and, as luck would have it, there's a job available. The head of the firm recently found, among family papers, a serialized novel, printed in a gold- rush-territory newspaper in the 1860s: Mel is hired to research the anonymous author. With this challenging task on her plate, Mel recognizes just how grim her domestic life is. Her invalid roommate Mayzee is bossy and jealous, her boyfriend Marc a pre-med lunk. Aided by her whip-smart Aunt Edie, Mel becomes convinced on the basis of clues buried in the novel that a woman named Melvina Mary Yuill was its author. Her new boss is understandably skeptical, noting that Mel's own name is Melvina Marie. Mel dutifully does her research, uncovering Melvina Yuill references in various archives and cannily trading info with rival scholars and hacks. But Mel may be getting a little too close to her subject: She's having strange dreams of ship passages and trials; and she's buying Victorian clothing and earrings. As she becomes fixated on the notion that Melvina is her ancestor, Mel breaks with her dreadful roommate, loses her beloved aunt after deathbed revelations about Mel's real ancestry, finds a boyfriend who is a descendant of one of the novel's characters, and receives professional accolades for her sleuthing. But she has a life-threatening exorcism to endure before she can enjoy the fruits of her library skills. Eccentric characters and the nitty-gritty of research are strengths here, but an over-the-top run-in-with-the-dead ending mars what might have been a canny sketch of the psychological perils of biography. -- Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
From the Publisher "The historical bits about life in the Australian goldfields during the Victorian era are fascinating...but The Scarlet Rider is most memorably a novel of character and coming of age." --The Denver Post
"I really, really enjoyed the book. It was an absolute page-turner, rising tension, as well as a lovely mystery yarn." --Karen Joy Fowler
"Wonderful...you'll enjoy the ride." --Grand Rapids Press
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Bildungsroman meets mystery meets Santeria By A Customer Combines Australian history, genealogical research methods, publishing and academia, Santeria, and a plain old good story. Owes something to Quest for Corvo, and possibly to Madison Smartt Bell's Washington Square Ensemble, and also to Conan Doyle. Magical realism is beginning to seep into the "western" mainstream, it seems, and a good thing
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