Meet me at Lennon's / Melanie Myers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Myers, Melanie, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--Australia--Fiction.

World War, 1939-1945.

Murder--Investigation--Australia--Brisbane (Qld.)--Fiction.

Murder.

Women college students--Fiction.

Women college students.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 pages)

Place of Publication:

St Lucia, Queensland : University of Queensland Press, [2019]

Summary:

As university student Olivia Wells sets out on her quest to find an unpublished manuscript by Gloria Graham - a now obscure mid-twentieth century feminist and writer - she unwittingly uncovers details about a young woman found murdered. Strangled with a nylon stocking in the mangroves on the banks of the river in wartime Brisbane, the case soon became known as the river girl murder. Olivia's detective work exposes the sinister side of that city in 1943, flush with greenbacks and nylons, jealousy and violence brewing between the Australian and US soldiers, which eventually boiled over into the infamous Battle of Brisbane. Olivia soon discovers that the diggers didn't just reserve their anger for the US forces - they also took it out on the women they perceived as traitors, the ones who dared to consort with US soldiers. Can Olivia rewrite history to bring justice to the river girl whose life was so brutally taken? Even if the past can't be changed, is it possible to undo history's erasure?

Contents:

Cover

Author Biography

Title Page

Imprint Page

Dedication

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Acknowledgements.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-7022-6375-3

OCLC:

1113865954