‘Verity, let me speak.’ With a long and rather painful cough he stubbed out his cigarette in the overflowing ashtray. ‘I have another idea that I would like to …’ Grandpa Sid would have been so very proud. It was the first full-length piece Mr Bailey had ever accepted. Bicycles-who would have thought? An excellent angle.’Ī great bubble of happiness blossomed in Verity’s chest and she beamed at Mr Bailey. I think we can find room for it in the weekend edition. ‘Close the door behind you.’ Twisting his swivel chair from side to side, his face hidden by a wreath of smoke, Mr Bailey offered a half-hearted smile. Just a moment of your time.’ Verity smoothed down her skirt and crossed the floor to his office. I’ll be right there.’ She dropped her coat and hat over the back of her chair and picked up her notebook and pencil. Usually at this time of the day the chief editor was full of bonhomie and a hankering to get down to the Glebe Hotel before the six o’clock swill. Mr Bailey sounded very serious for a Friday afternoon. Can she solve it? And will anyone believe her if she does? But as she begins to dig, her investigation quickly leads her to an increasingly dark and complex mystery, a mystery fifty years in the making.
At the ball, she lands a juicy commission to write the history of the Treadwell Foundation – an institution that supports disgraced young women and their babies. Her late grandfather Sid, an esteemed newspaperman, would expect no less of her. Then Clarrie’s new-born son goes missing and everything changes.ġ922 Sydney When would-be correspondent Verity Binks is sent an anonymous parcel containing a spectacular butterfly costume and an invitation to the Sydney Artists Masquerade Ball on the same day she loses her job at The Arrow, she is both baffled and determined to go. With the help of Clarrie, her maid, and her beautiful illustrations, she is poised to make a natural science discovery that will put her name on the map. Theodora seeks to emulate prestigious nature illustrators, the Scott sisters, who lived nearby, so she cannot believe her luck when she discovers a butterfly never before sighted in Australia. What connects a botanical illustration of a butterfly with a missing baby and an enigma fifty years in the making? A twisty historical mystery from a bestselling Australian author.ġ868 Morpeth Theodora Breckenridge, still in mourning after the loss of her parents and brother at sea, is more interested in working quietly on her art at the family’s country estate than she is finding a husband in Sydney society, even if her elder sister Florence has other ideas. Start reading The Butterfly Collector by Tea Cooper
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