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Murder in the Telephone Exchange sets the mystery in Melbourne’s Central Telephone Exchange during the late 1940s. When a fellow operator is killed—her head bashed with a "buttinsky," a piece of phone‑hacking equipment—Maggie Byrnes, a young and spirited switchboard operator, takes matters into her own hands. Suspicious coworkers and a stolid police force that suspects her complicity make her investigation all the more urgent. As another friend is slain, Maggie faces the chilling possibility that she may be next. With wit and momentum, the novel delivers a gripping whodunit that echoes the classic styles of Dorothy Sayers and Daphne du Maurier.
First publish date: 2013
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Historical Mystery
Authors: June Wright
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