About the book
Don Marquis Contents Cover Title Page Dedication Epigraph The Layout of the Ghan Australian Mystery Writers’ Festival, 50th Anniversary Program Prologue Memoir Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Blockbuster He’s the type of character who solves the case in chapter 2 and hangs onto it until the end, only dragging it out to unspool everyone’s lies. Read the damn thing.” STARS OF THE FUTURE Oliver Wright, 19 August 2003, Edinburgh A YEAR AFTER THE PUBLICATION OF HIS DEBUT GLOBAL BESTSELLER, HENRY MCTAVISH HAS RETURNED WITH ANOTHER IMPOSSIBLE MURDER THAT CAN ONLY BE SOLVED BY HIS RECLUSIVE SCOTTISH GENIUS. He’d finally cracked his professional veneer, pulling up a stool at the bar and unscrewing the cap from a bottle of vodka. “Erica Mathison isn’t real.