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y separately published work icon The Scent of Murder single work   novel   crime   mystery  
Is part of A Dr Dody McCleland Mystery Felicity Young , 2012 series - author novel (number 3 in series)
Issue Details: First known date: 2014... 2014 The Scent of Murder
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'If a black dog appears along the old corpse way, the route a funeral procession takes to the churchyard, it is thought to be escorting the dead soul to the afterlife. A black dog sighting without a funeral procession, however, is supposed to foreshadow death.'

For Doctor Dody McCleland, the unearthing of an ancient skeleton in a dry riverbed is a welcome break from the monotony of chaperoning her younger sister at a country house near the isolated hamlet of Piltdown. But when she begins her analysis of the bones, Britain's first female autopsy surgeon discovers they are much more recent – and they are the result of murder. With Chief Inspector Matthew Pike's help Dody begins to investigate. Soon she finds herself pitted against ugly traditionalism, exploitation, spectral dogs, a ghostly hunt and a series of events that not only threaten her belief in scientific rationalism, but threaten her life itself. '

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Historic Setting an Ideal Change Elaine Fry , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 11 March 2014; (p. 6)

— Review of The Scent of Murder Felicity Young , 2014 single work novel
Historic Setting an Ideal Change Elaine Fry , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 11 March 2014; (p. 6)

— Review of The Scent of Murder Felicity Young , 2014 single work novel
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