THE INK STAIN
Book 4, The Monsarrat Series
By Tom Keneally, Meg Keneally
Monsarrat and Mrs Mulrooney are sent to Sydney to investigate corruption that may go right to the top – the office of the Governor of NSW.
Henry Hallward, editor of the Sydney Chronicle, is a thorn in the side of the colonial administration.
He has repeatedly agitated for greater rights for convicts, angering local landowners and the new governor. He has also been highly critical of several prominent citizens, and recently published a story accusing Socrates McAllister of rum-running.
Hallward has been imprisoned several times for criminal libel, and continues to edit his newspaper while incarcerated. This time, he’s in jail awaiting trial for suggesting that there have been some criminal financial dealings involving the CEO of the Australian Agricultural Company, a consortium of British landowners, some resident in the colony, some not, to whom the British government was giving a million acres of Australian land to develop. He has told friends that he has damaging information on someone close to the new Governor, which will shortly be revealed.
First, though, he has to face court. As he is being taken from Sydney jail to the courthouse, a shot is heard from a nearby building, and he falls dead to the ground.
Meanwhile, Major Duchamp has forbidden Monsarrat to examine the building from which Hallward was shot. Monsarrat breaks in one night. Looking out from the window, he concludes the shot would have taken a significant amount of marksman’s ability. The night watch, however, catches him and arrests him. Duchamp has Monsarrat imprisoned. He says he has been in touch with Socrates McAllister, Horace Bulmer and others, all of whom say that Monsarrat should be permanently criminalised, and intend to lend their voices to such an effort.
Leaving only Mrs Mulrooney on the outside to sort things out!
RRP:$32.99
For this and other new releases: https://www.penguin.com.au/books/new-releases
Book 4, The Monsarrat Series
By Tom Keneally, Meg Keneally
Monsarrat and Mrs Mulrooney are sent to Sydney to investigate corruption that may go right to the top – the office of the Governor of NSW.
Henry Hallward, editor of the Sydney Chronicle, is a thorn in the side of the colonial administration.
He has repeatedly agitated for greater rights for convicts, angering local landowners and the new governor. He has also been highly critical of several prominent citizens, and recently published a story accusing Socrates McAllister of rum-running.
Hallward has been imprisoned several times for criminal libel, and continues to edit his newspaper while incarcerated. This time, he’s in jail awaiting trial for suggesting that there have been some criminal financial dealings involving the CEO of the Australian Agricultural Company, a consortium of British landowners, some resident in the colony, some not, to whom the British government was giving a million acres of Australian land to develop. He has told friends that he has damaging information on someone close to the new Governor, which will shortly be revealed.
First, though, he has to face court. As he is being taken from Sydney jail to the courthouse, a shot is heard from a nearby building, and he falls dead to the ground.
Meanwhile, Major Duchamp has forbidden Monsarrat to examine the building from which Hallward was shot. Monsarrat breaks in one night. Looking out from the window, he concludes the shot would have taken a significant amount of marksman’s ability. The night watch, however, catches him and arrests him. Duchamp has Monsarrat imprisoned. He says he has been in touch with Socrates McAllister, Horace Bulmer and others, all of whom say that Monsarrat should be permanently criminalised, and intend to lend their voices to such an effort.
Leaving only Mrs Mulrooney on the outside to sort things out!
RRP:$32.99
For this and other new releases: https://www.penguin.com.au/books/new-releases
