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    The Marvell Crescent Murders: Dusty Kent Mysteries
    The Marvell Crescent Murders: Dusty Kent Mysteries
    The Marvell Crescent Murders: Dusty Kent Mysteries
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    The Marvell Crescent Murders: Dusty Kent Mysteries

    By Brigid George

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    A Dusty Kent Murder Mystery by an Amazon Best Selling Author!

    A killer crept silently into an ordinary suburban home in the middle of the night. The next day, the house was silent. Thirty years later, Dusty Kent is called in to catch the murderer and solve her first case.

     

    The Marvell Crescent Murders is an intriguing short story of less than 5000 words set in Melbourne, Australia.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPotoroo Press
    Release dateApr 2, 2020
    ISBN9781393418122
    The Marvell Crescent Murders: Dusty Kent Mysteries

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      The Marvell Crescent Murders - Brigid George

      Chapter 1

      SOMEBODY KNOWS who the killer is. Someone knows who sneaked around to the rear of the house in the middle of the night, slid open the back door, entered the silent home and crept along the hall to the bedrooms. The killer set to work in the dark, guided by the occasional flash of torchlight. The baying of a neighbour’s dog cut through the quiet of the night, ending in a brooding whine. The murderer carried out his sinister deed and left. A terrible stillness settled over the house.

      The next day the curtains remained drawn. No-one knew a young mother and her seven-year-old daughter lay dead inside. From the outside, nothing extraordinary distinguished the two bedroom weatherboard home in a leafy Melbourne suburb with a letterbox at the start of the driveway, a recently mown front lawn and conifers growing along the side fence.

      Shortly after the winter sun broke the dawn that Tuesday, the creaky wheels of a trolley announced the arrival of the daily tabloid. A lanky youth flung a rolled-up newspaper onto the front porch where it landed with a dull splat.

      The sun’s rays had almost dried the dew from the grass by the time the six-year-old girl from next door, her school bag bouncing on her back, skipped along the driveway of the silent house past the red car parked there and turned onto the path leading to the front steps. She looked up as she climbed the stairs, a half smile on her lips in anticipation of glimpsing her friend’s face at the window. The girl’s smile had faded by the time she raised her diminutive

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