Shortlisted for Best First Book for the Commonwealth Writers\' Price for 2011 Meet Rowland Sinclair, gentleman and artist living in 1931 Sydney.
In time, Rowland\'s investigation exposes an extraordinary conspiracy with direct personal consequences..
Among them are a few Right Thinking men, a cadre of conservatives who became convinced of a Communist takeover and have formed a movement to combat it.
The murder prompts Roland to infiltrate the echelons of the old and new guard.
One day in December 1931 comes terrible news: Uncle Rowly has been murdered in his home by unknown assailants.
Sinclair\'s fortune and his indifference to politics shelter him from the mounting tensions of the Great Depression roiling Australia and taking it near the brink of revolution.
Is he perhaps in love with Edna? If so, she isn\'t having any.
Friend of the Left, son of the Right, he paints in a superbly tailored, three-piece suit and houses friends who include a poet, a painter, and a feminist sculptress whom he has painted nude and hung it in the drawing room.
Shortlisted for Best First Book for the Commonwealth Writers\' Price for 2011 Meet Rowland Sinclair, gentleman and artist living in 1931 Sydney
