Who Killed Connie Burt? by Guy Boothby

A wonderfully inventive classic mystery from the dawn of detection!

Maurice Ogilvie is a man facing disgrace, heading for bankruptcy after squandering his fortune and being deserted by his fiancée. Seeking a new life, Ogilvie takes on a new identity, and works his passage to Australia. Yet on the night he departs London his former lover, the music hall star Connie Burt, is murdered in her carriage, not long after the two met for a final farewell. Cast as a fugitive murderer, Maurice’s attempts to make a new life for himself in Australia under an assumed name threaten to be overshadowed by Connie Burt’s death. For all his hopes, there are those who wish to locate him, and the time must come eventually when he will be forced to face the accusation of murder.

Guy Boothby was one of the most prolific Australian authors of the late nineteenth century, writing over fifty books in a career that spanned a little more than a decade. Who Killed Connie Burt? which combines crime, mystery, and romance, was first serialised in 1902, and later published in book form in 1903. This edition represents the first time this work has been returned to print in over a century.

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