Simon Petrie
Murder on the Zenith Express
2018
Gordon Mamon was the lift operator in a hotel that didn't have a lift.
The hotel, the 'Skyward Suites 270', was the lift.
All Gordon wants to do, when he isn't delivering room service, administering first aid, washing dishes, cleaning bathrooms, or forwarding service complaints, is to be able to finish his crossword in piece. But people keep inconsiderately dying of unnatural causes during their stay aboard his lift-module on the Skyward space elevator.
Welcome to Module 270, an orbit-transiting hotel with a suspiciously high body count.
About the Author
Born on the South Island of New Zealand and now living on the North Island of Australia, Simon Petrie is a Canberra-based research scientist and writer of speculative fiction (SF, fantasy, and occasionally horror), with over one hundred short stories published since 2006. In August 2010, he was awarded Best New Talent in the Sir Julius Vogel Awards (NZ's annual speculative fiction awards), and in 2013 and 2018 respectively his novellas Flight 404 and Matters Arising from the Identification of the Body won the Best Novella / Novelette award in the Sir Julius Vogel Awards. His fiction has also been shortlisted for the (Australian) Ditmar and Aurealis Awards, and has appeared in Year's Best lists; he's also scored a coveted Dishonourable Mention in the annual Bulwer-Lytton writing competition.
