Rowland Sinclair Books in Order

Shanghai, 1935: in a treaty-port city of taipans and taxi girls, Rowland Sinclair wakes to find a young woman he once danced with murdered in his hotel suite. To save himself and honour the victim, he follows clues through dance halls, alleys, and boardrooms where every alliance is dangerous.

Sent to Boston to execute the contested will of his old friend Daniel Cartwright, Rowland Sinclair walks into a storm of family resentment. With a mysterious heir missing and threats escalating, Rowly and his entourage must untangle murder, money, and old secrets from Beacon Hill to New York.

American millionaire Daniel Cartwright dies in Boston after quietly naming Rowland Sinclair as his executor. Facing a furious family, a missing heir, and a suspicious death, Rowly and his friends are pulled into a world of tycoons, movie stars, and gangsters determined to protect their own.

In 1935 Shanghai, Rowland Sinclair arrives to attend delicate wool negotiations under strict orders to sign nothing. When a Russian taxi dancer connected to him is found murdered, suspicion falls his way, and he must navigate glamour, gangsters, and colonial politics to clear his name.

Rowland Sinclair volunteers his plane to fly controversial journalist Egon Kisch across Australia, unaware the government will stop at nothing to bar the "raging reporter". After a communist agent is murdered, Rowly is drawn into a tangle of right-wing militias, protests, and an old flame with her own agenda.

Set just before the main series, this novella follows a young Rowland Sinclair newly returned to Sydney and adrift between duty and art. Enrolling in an art school, he meets Edna, Clyde, and Milton, opens his family mansion to bohemians, and confronts a crime that tests his instinct to trust.

When Rowland Sinclair accepts an invitation to race his yellow Mercedes on the notorious Maroubra Speedway, he expects thrills, not bodies. A dead journalist, a murdered fascist aristocrat, shady bookmakers, and whispers of black magic soon turn a charity event into a lethal investigation.

A drained dam yields the gun that killed Rowland Sinclair's formidable father years ago, dragging a buried family tragedy into the open. As gossip hints Rowly pulled the trigger as a teenager, he and his friends revisit the Southern Tablelands to face secrets the Sinclairs never discuss.

Fresh from a harrowing mission in Germany, Rowland Sinclair reaches London hoping for rest, only to stumble over the bizarrely staged murder of a titled aristocrat. Determined to save the young woman accused, he tangles with British Blackshirts, spies, and an upper class blind to the coming storm.

In 1933, the Australian establishment sends Rowland Sinclair undercover to Nazi Germany to shadow local fascist leader Eric Campbell. Posing among brownshirts and sympathetic aristocrats, Rowly and his friends must survive espionage and street violence while trying to blunt a dangerous alliance.

As the Depression bites in 1933, Rowland Sinclair is enjoying the comforts of a grand mountain hotel when trusted stockman Harry Simpson vanishes. Rowly abandons croquet for the High Country, chasing kidnappers, rustlers, and a conspiracy that reaches far beyond one missing man.

Homeward bound on the luxury liner Aquitania in 1932, Rowland Sinclair dines with bishops, suffragettes, and self-proclaimed prophets. When a fellow passenger is found stabbed with Rowly's walking stick, he and his friends must sift through faith, fraud, and politics to clear his name.

In 1931 Sydney, gentleman artist Rowland Sinclair is shaken when his beloved uncle is murdered and the police fix on the wrong suspect. With his bohemian friends at his side, Rowly plunges into the clash between radicals and right-thinking elites to uncover a treasonous plot.