Showing posts with label Australia crime fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Australia crime fiction. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 10, 2024

PPL#6: The Voice of the Corpse, by Max Murray

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  9781915530318 Galileo Publishers, 2024 originally published 1947 218 pp paperback (read in August) Although The Voice of the Corpse is set...
Friday, December 29, 2017

* and another.... The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, by Fergus Hume

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0701210133 Hogarth Press, 1985 originally published 1886 224 pp paperback "...life is a chessboard, after all, and we are the ...
Friday, October 20, 2017

*back to business once again: Force and Fraud, A Tale of the Bush, by Ellen Davitt

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kindle edition Clan Destine Press, 2015 originally serialized 1865 in The Australian Journal 244 pp " Yes, there they were: Fo...
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Tuesday, July 15, 2014

from the "godfather of Australian crime" - Silent Kill, by Peter Corris

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9781743316375 Allen and Unwin, 2014 255 pp paperback - my copy from Shannon at IPG -- thanks! "Problem simple, solution diffic...
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Monday, September 9, 2013

Another stunning work featuring a historical crime -- Burial Rites, by Hannah Kent

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(reposted from the literary side of my online reading journal ) While this book definitely falls on the literary side of things, it's ...
Thursday, December 27, 2012

*A Temple Twosome: Bad Debts and Black Tide by Peter Temple

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Bad Debts 9781596921290 McAdam/Cage, 2005 originally published 1996 318 pp ".... the system is not about fairness. It's not...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

*Scream Black Murder, by Philip McLaren

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1890768421 Intrigue Press/WorldKrime, 2002 originally published 1995 252 pp. Although this story is fictional, there is a true...
Wednesday, September 29, 2010

The Broken Shore, by Peter Temple

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9780374116934 Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007 357 pp. originally published 2005, Text Publishing Company, Australia When I finishe...
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