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The Empress Murders
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A razor-sharp, mind-bendingly clever whodunnit from award-winning playwright and actor, Toby Schmitz.
Everyone is in peril. Everyone is a suspect.
It's 1925 and the Empress of Australia is making her regular Atlantic crossing, New York– bound, with a full manifest of passengers.
When a dead body is uncovered onboard, it is up to Inspector Archie Daniels to find the killer. But solving one murder quickly turns into solving two, then three, and it becomes clear that Daniels must act fast to avoid an all-souls-lost– level calamity. No one, from the horrendously wealthy and entitled first-class passengers to those they consider the dregs of empire below deck, is safe. And no one can get off ...
The Empress Murders is a razor-sharp, mind-bendingly clever novel that is both a witty, bloodthirsty whodunnit and an excoriating look at the excesses of the British Empire, just as the sun begins to set on it.
'A tense and claustrophobic mystery told with startling wit.' TIM MINCHIN
'Whatever you think this book is, think again. Cosy murder mystery? Historical crime fiction? Flamboyant literary feast? Slasher horror? The Empress Murders has all that, but Toby Schmitz has created a unique beast. I loved it. What a trip. Be ready for anything.' MALCOLM KNOX, author of The First Friend
'A uniquely brilliant reimagining of the nautical murder mystery ... It's a novel that is both literary and highly readable. Unequivocally recommended.' RICHARD ROXBURGH
Everyone is in peril. Everyone is a suspect.
It's 1925 and the Empress of Australia is making her regular Atlantic crossing, New York– bound, with a full manifest of passengers.
When a dead body is uncovered onboard, it is up to Inspector Archie Daniels to find the killer. But solving one murder quickly turns into solving two, then three, and it becomes clear that Daniels must act fast to avoid an all-souls-lost– level calamity. No one, from the horrendously wealthy and entitled first-class passengers to those they consider the dregs of empire below deck, is safe. And no one can get off ...
The Empress Murders is a razor-sharp, mind-bendingly clever novel that is both a witty, bloodthirsty whodunnit and an excoriating look at the excesses of the British Empire, just as the sun begins to set on it.
'A tense and claustrophobic mystery told with startling wit.' TIM MINCHIN
'Whatever you think this book is, think again. Cosy murder mystery? Historical crime fiction? Flamboyant literary feast? Slasher horror? The Empress Murders has all that, but Toby Schmitz has created a unique beast. I loved it. What a trip. Be ready for anything.' MALCOLM KNOX, author of The First Friend
'A uniquely brilliant reimagining of the nautical murder mystery ... It's a novel that is both literary and highly readable. Unequivocally recommended.' RICHARD ROXBURGH
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Table of contents
- COVER PAGE
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- TITLE PAGE
- COPYRIGHT PAGE
- CONTENTS
- AUTHOR’S NOTE
- WELCOME ABOARD
- ROUGH DRAFT
- THE DEAD BENGALI DECKHAND
- LEST WE FORGET
- A FUCK-TON OF STAIRS
- THE SILVER LINING
- WITNESS TO A RENDEZVOUS
- THE BARBARIC SWITCH
- INSPECTOR TAKES HIS TEA WITH MOJO
- SEPTIMUS & GOLLY GOSH
- LAPS
- BLACKBIRD
- BLAME ALEXANDERPLATZ
- DOTTYVILLE
- KILLSEA
- THE ELIMINATOR
- GASTRIC HUMOUR
- MIDNIGHT FOLLIES
- FOREIGN BODIES
- TARGET FIXATION
- WAR COMES WHISTLING IN
- SPLICING THE MAINBRACE
- SPOOKY MOON ON TREES
- REMEMBER SCARBOROUGH
- PAST TENSE
- THE BRIG
- APRES CALME
- SLUM KID
- A CLOWN SHORT OF A CIRCUS
- WHEN BEGGARS DIE THERE ARE NO COMETS SEEN
- ONE THING AT A TIME
- TRACE THE NOBLE DUST
- LEND EVERY MAN THINE EAR
- THINGS THAT GO BUMP
- A MOTH TO HONOUR
- SHIVERS
- HELL HAS MANY MOUTHS
- AT SOME POINT
- BLOOD . . .
- . . . & GUTS
- LONTY
- MANY A SLIP TWIXT THE COP AND THE SHIP
- FLOTILLA
- TENSE PAST
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
