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Bushranger of the Skies
Death of a Swagman
The Devil's Steps
An Author Bites the Dust
The Mountains Have a Secret
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The New Shoe
Venom House
Murder Must Wait
Death of a Lake
The Cake in the Hat Box
The Battling Prophet
Man of Two Tribes
Bony Buys a Woman
Bony and the Mouse
Bony and the Black Virgin
Bony and the Kelly Gang
Bony and the White Savage
The Will of the Tribe
Madman's Bend
The Lake Frome Monster

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The House of Cain
The Beach of Atonement
A Royal Abduction
Gripped by Drought
The Murchison Murders
Breakaway House
The Great Mebourne Cup Mystery
The Gifts of Frank Cobbold
Up and Down Australia
Up and Down the Real Australia
Follow My Dust
Life and Times of Bony's Man

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The Great Melbourne Cup Mystery (1933/1996)

 

"Melbourne during the Depression. A seedy, corrupt city.
Someone has struck at the heart of Australia's soul: they have killed the horse that would have won the Melbourne Cup. For what motive? Profit, blackmail, a betting scam? Only Tom Pink, the rider of the murdered horse can find out.
Tom, born into the underworld he now tries to defeat, exposes graft and blackmail that reaches to the upper eschelons of Melbourne society. His life and the lives of those he holds close will never be the same again.
The Great Melbourne Cup Mystery, written in 1933, a year after the mysterious death of Phar Lop, (winner of the 1930 Melbourne Cup) is a previously lost classic of Australian crime fiction" - from the cover

Printed posthumously by Imprint in 1996.

 

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