TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smither,Elizabeth
TI  - First blood: a novel 
SN  - 0340338709
AV  - PR/9639.3/.S54/ F57/1983x
U1  - NZ823.2 19
PY  - 1983///
CY  - Auckland, N.Z.
PB  - Hodder and Stoughton
KW  - Murder
KW  - Investigation
KW  - Fiction
KW  - New Plymouth (N.Z.)
KW  - History
KW  - New Zealand fiction
KW  - 20th century
KW  - local
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
N2  - The author has used a real-life nineteenth century murder, the first to be committed in the young settlement of New Plymouth, as the central event of her first novel. This is a psychological history, concerned above all with a network of relationships and shows how the tragedy at the core of the novel is the result of the tensions generated by society
ER  -