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001			on1161998181
003			OCoLC
005			20200706110655.0
008			200316t20202020nz a 000 1 eng d
020			_a9781990007101 _qpaperback
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035			_a(OCoLC)1161998181
040			_aNZLPP _beng _cNZLPP _dOCLCO
100			_aHorrocks, John, _eauthor. _947154
245	1	0	_aDark empire / _cJohn Horrocks.
246	1		_iSubtitle on cover: _aWellington, 1916
260			_aPetone, Aotearoa New Zealand : _bSteele Roberts Aotearoa Ltd, _c[2020].
300			_a256 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm.
520			_aKatherine Mansfield created some of literature's most chilling characters, not least Harry Kember and his wife. They seemed out of place among the families enjoying summer holidays at Wellington's Days Bay. Some of the women at the Bay thought that one day Harry would commit a murder. Twenty years later, Harry controls Wellington's criminal underworld. It is wartime, but business is brisk at his complex of sly grog shops and brothels. His financial dealings have also begun to ensnare more upright citizens such as Stanley Burnell. When Detective Sergeant Tom Guthrie is asked to investigate the drowning of a prisoner from Somes Island, he learns that the man is Burnell's brother-in-law, who worked for both him and Kember. Neither wants to talk about him, while Kate Benson, a journalist at Truth, finds it is dangerous to ask questions about the dead man.
650		0	_aCriminals _zNew Zealand _zWellington _vFiction. _947155
651		0	_aWellington (N.Z.) _vFiction. _97590
655		0	_aDetective and mystery fiction. _2lcgft _921598
655		0	_aNew Zealand fiction _y21st century. _2lcgft _918597
942			_2ddc _cFICNZ
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