Wealthy Australian artist Rowland Sinclair enjoys a comfortably bohemian existence which he shares with old allies - a poet, a fellow painter and a brazen sculptress.

It's the early 1930s and a great Depression is engulfing the world, spawning misery and discontent. Tensions are mounting as the Far Right makes inroads which threaten national stability.

Rowland's comfortable idyll is shattered when a vicious murder exposes a treacherous conspiracy... one which he and his redoubtable colleagues find themselves obliged to investigate.

Sulari Gentill expertly weaves real events into her tension-fuelled murder mysteries. Rowland Sinclair and his friends are destined to become long-haul companions for lovers of mystery fiction and world history.

"An engrossing, easy-read mystery novel" - Daily Telegraph

"This is an engaging tale. The writing is witty and assured, confidently claiming the historical territory and depicting the social groups with a knowledgeable affection" - Sydney Morning Herald

"I must confess I've become rather fond of artist Roland Sinclair and his bohemian friends who divide their time globetrotting, solving murder mysteries" - Herald Sun

"Gentill has written an absorbing story about a crucial but underwritten slice of Australian history" - Courier Mail

"A sparkling crime series ... Evelyn Waugh meets Agatha Christie" - The Age