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Title Statement | The frangipani tree mystery / Ovidia Yu. |
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Author | Yu, Ovidia, 1961- |
Publication | London: Constable,2017. |
Extent of Item | 313 pages ; |
ISBN | 1472125207 (pbk.) 9781472125200 (pbk.) |
Other Number | 3393169 |
Summary | It is 1936 in the Crown Colony of Singapore, and the British abdication crisis and rising Japanese threat seem very far away. When the Irish nanny looking after Acting Governor Palin's daughter dies suddenly--and in mysterious circumstances--mission school-educated local girl SuLin, an aspiring journalist trying to escape an arranged marriage, is invited to take her place. But then another murder at the residence occurs and it seems very likely that a killer is stalking the corridors of Government House. It now takes all SuLin's traditional skills and intelligence to help British-born Chief Inspector Thomas LeFroy solve the murders--and escape with her own life. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Governesses--Fiction |
Colonial administrators--Fiction | |
British--Fiction--Singapore | |
Murder--Fiction--Investigation | |
Official residences--Fiction | |
Police--Fiction--Singapore | |
Nineteen thirties--Fiction | |
By Location | Singapore--Fiction--History--1867-1942 |
By Genre | Mystery fiction |
Historical fiction |