Reggie Da Costa #2 Deadly Intent

It is October 1923. What looks like a routine report on the heavy rains battering Melbourne becomes another case of murder for The Argus s celebrated crime reporter Reggie da Costa devotee of fashionable suits and flamboyant automobiles. A flooded basement hides a ghastly secret: the decomposing remains of Cornelius Stout a wealthy widower who has been missing for over two years. With an unlikely partner in straitlaced Dotty Wright Reggie pursues a cold-blooded manipulative killer with deadly intentions. Deadly Intent is the second in the Reggie da Costa Mysteries.