The Case of the Wandering Corpse (Major Gask Mysteries)
Dynamic duo Major Findo Gask and Erroll Rait join forces once again for this entertaining detective story set in Melbourne, Australia. It is 1863, and the gold rush is at its height. Against this backdrop, our heroes are tasked with saving the life of a man wrongly accused of murder.
The story opens with a prologue by Major Gask, who sets the scene in a Sherlock Holmes-like way. He says the mystery about to unfold links the two emerging colonies of southern Africa and Australia. While the action is mostly confined to Australia, the novel begins in 1938 in Zululand, South Africa. What happens in these early chapters has an impact on what comes next.
Like Gask and Rait, readers will have to keep their wits about them to get their heads around the winding plot. This Victorian detective story involves a staged robbery, the theft of gold, a murder, a dangerous secret society which is spreading across Melbourne and a race against time to unmask a killer before more lives are lost. The author has a keen eye for period detail, based on meticulous research, and this is woven into the narrative to create a gripping, fast-paced read.
