The Marx Sisters

Barry Maitland

Allen & Unwin, 2007 - Brock, David (Fictitious character) - 319 pages

Jerusalem Lane has been untouched by developers, it is a little piece of Dickensian London, its inhabitants mainly refugees from pre-war central Europe. So, could elderly Meredith Winterbottom really have been killed for the politics of another age? As DS Kolla and DCI Brock delve into the lane's eccentric melting pot, past and present interlink in unexpected ways. Police procedural.

About the author

Barry Maitland was born in Scotland and brought up in London. After studying architecture at Cambridge, he practised and taught in the UK before moving to Australia where he was Professor of Architecture at the University of Newcastle. He has since retired from the university to pursue his writing. Maitland's first mystery The Marx Sisters was a nominee for the John Creasey award for Best First Novel and The Malcontenta won the Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Fiction. Spider Trap, his ninth Brock and Kolla mystery, was published in August 2006.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Marx Sisters; Book 1 of Brock and Kolla mysteries, Barry Maitland
• Author: Barry Maitland
• Publisher: Allen & Unwin, 2007
• ISBN: 1741751756, 9781741751758
• Length: 319 pages