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The Great Melbourne Cup Mystery

Author : Arthur W. Upfield
Publisher : ETT Imprint
ISBN 13 : 1925416623
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (254 download)

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Download or read book The Great Melbourne Cup Mystery written by Arthur W. Upfield and published by ETT Imprint. This book was released on 2018-09-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 echelons 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 Lap (winner of the 1930 Melbourne Cup) is a previously lost classic of Australian crime fiction.

The Melbourne Cup Mystery

Author : Arthur Upfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782876784581
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (845 download)

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Download or read book The Melbourne Cup Mystery written by Arthur Upfield and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Un dendrologue amoureux d'une belle plante, c'est très bien mais comment s'y prendre ? Lila est une ravissante jeune femme en fleur et Cyril l'amateur d'arbres est muet. Ils communiquent en s'écrivant des mots doux posés sur la table, accrochés aux branches. Evidemment ça n'aide pas toujours à se comprendre, il y a parfois des malentendus. Pourquoi par exemple les jeunes gens qui passent dans la région ont tendance à disparaître corps et biens ? C'est ce que le détective Philémont et l'inspecteur Serralongue aimeraient bien savoir.

The Great Melbourne Cup Mystery

Author : Arthur William Upfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Great Melbourne Cup Mystery written by Arthur William Upfield and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Great Melbourne Cup Mystery

Author : Arthur Upfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781925416749
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (167 download)

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Download or read book The Great Melbourne Cup Mystery written by Arthur Upfield and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

THE MYSTERY OF A HANSOM CAB (Thriller Classic)

Author : Fergus Hume
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 : 8026864824
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book THE MYSTERY OF A HANSOM CAB (Thriller Classic) written by Fergus Hume and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "THE MYSTERY OF A HANSOM CAB (Thriller Classic)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Mystery of a Hansom Cab is a mystery novel, which takes place in Melbourne, Australia. It focuses on the investigation of a homicide involving a body discovered in a hansom cab, as well as an exploration into the social class divide in the city. The city of Melbourne plays a significant role in the plot and, as the author describes: "Over all the great city hung a cloud of smoke like a pall." Fergus Hume (1859-1932) was a prolific English novelist. His self-published novel, "The Mystery of a Hansom Cab", became a great success. It eventually became the best selling mystery novel of the Victorian era, author John Sutherland terming it the "most sensationally popular crime and detective novel of the century".

Melbourne Cup 1930

Author : Geoff Armstrong
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1741158648
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Melbourne Cup 1930 written by Geoff Armstrong and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 19?? with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phar Lap's assault on the Melbourne Cup generated unprecedented excitement across the country. At the same time, it filled many bookmakers with dread a victory for the favourite would cost them plenty. He'd have to be stopped, whatever the cost. For the newspapers, the twin stories of sporting greatness and seedy corruption were a sensational cocktail. Readers lapped it up, while for the poor punters, suffering during the Great Depression, a Phar Lap triumph was their best hope of turning one quid into two. Melbourne Cup 1930 is the story of four days in November that became at the same time the most famous and infamous in Cup history. It began with a gunman, like something out of a Chicago gangster movie, apparently trying to kill Phar Lap on a quiet suburban street. With his life in danger and those closest to him terrified, the champion was spirited away to a secret location, while one of the city's most celebrated detectives searched for the culprits. Meanwhile, the other horses, owners, trainers and jockeys were preparing for the biggest race of their lives. Their many diverse stories and the memories they invoke of Cups gone by are an integral part of this unique tale. An hour before the jump, Phar Lap's whereabouts remained a mystery. Finally, he arrived at Flemington, to go almost immediately to the start as a huge crowd cheered him on. The police had been told to put men down the back of the track, in case the gunman tried one last time, but they now believed that the original assassination attempt might not have been all that it seemed. Nothing it appears could stop Phar Lap now

Sold by the Millions

Author : Louise Lightfoot
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443835986
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Sold by the Millions written by Louise Lightfoot and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-08 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australian genre fiction writers have successfully exploited the Australian landscape and peoples and as a result their books are today “sold by the millions” across boundaries. They have created stories that are imaginative, visionary, and diverse. They appeal to local and international readerships and, most importantly, are thoroughly entertaining, thus making them a strong presence in the popular fiction bazaar. Sold by the Millions: Australia’s Bestsellers is the first collection to concentrate on Australia’s best-selling material that forms the armchair reading of many Australians. Leading experts of popular fiction provide introspective pieces on Romance, Horror, Crime, Science Fiction, Western, Comics, Travel, Sports and Children’s writing so that a wholesome picture emerges of the wide range of reading and research options available for scholars.

Mystery Spinner

Author : Gideon Haigh
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1925626261
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book Mystery Spinner written by Gideon Haigh and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘[An] unconventional journey...brilliantly documented.’ Courier Mail ‘So you want to know something about this funny old bowling of mine. Well, there’s nothing to it. It’s really very simple—in fact, at times, I do not know much about it myself.’ In 1950, aged in his mid-thirties, ‘tall, shy, shambling’ Jack Iverson burst forth from obscurity in suburban Melbourne, ‘bowled like no man before’ and became a national sensation, then faded from view almost as swiftly. He died in obscurity, in tragic circumstances. In the enthralling Mystery Spinner, first published in 1999, one of the world’s best cricket writers goes in search of an enigma: an ordinary man in whom lurked the extraordinary. Gideon Haigh has been a journalist for three decades, writing mainly about sport and business. He is the author of more than thirty books, among them the award-winning On Warne, Certain Admissions and Stroke of Genius. He lives in Melbourne. ‘One of the best cricket biographies I have ever read.’ Wisden Cricket Monthly ‘Even if you don’t care for the game you might enjoy it...Not your standard sporting biography.’ Guardian ‘A delight, a gripping (no pun intended) read, and an object lesson to anyone tempted to try their hand at biography.’ ESPN cricinfo ‘Magnificent.’ Roar

Mostly French

Author : Alistair Rolls
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039119578
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Mostly French written by Alistair Rolls and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, which was inspired by a conference on plural conjugations of Frenchness (La France au pluriel) held in 2007 at the Universities of Technology, Sydney and Newcastle, focuses on the concept of national belonging as it pertains to detective fiction, with particular emphasis on French and Australian detective fictions and the encounter and crossing over between them. The objective is not only to use the concepts of 'French' and 'Australian' detective fiction productively, via the analysis of French and Australian detective-fiction novels, but also to challenge and undermine the very notion of national detective fictions, which are so often assumed to be transparently meaningful. The contributors to this volume focus variously on the following areas: comparative analysis of the genesis of French and Australian detective fiction; translation of Australian (and other) novels into French; translation as a genre; Frenchness as a stereotype, its role in individual novels and its spectre in all detective fiction; and readings of individual French and Australian detective novels. Overall, this book aims to challenge assumptions about French detective fiction, its influence on other national fictions and its explicit and implicit presence in all detective fiction.

Australian Crime Fiction

Author : Stephen Knight
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476632669
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Australian Crime Fiction written by Stephen Knight and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australian crime fiction has grown from the country's origins as an 18th-century English prison colony. Early stories focused on escaped convicts becoming heroic bush rangers, or how the system mistreated those who were wrongfully convicted. Later came thrillers about wealthy free settlers and lawless gold-seekers, and urban crime fiction, including Fergus Hume's 1887 international best-seller The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, set in Melbourne. The 1980s saw a surge of private-eye thrillers, popular in a society skeptical of police. Twenty-first century authors have focused on policemen--and increasingly policewomen--and finally indigenous crime narratives. The author explores in detail this rich but little known national subgenre.

Late Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock

Author : C. Clarke
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230390544
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Late Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock written by C. Clarke and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-26 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the development of crime fiction in the 1880s and 1890s, challenging studies of late-Victorian crime fiction which have given undue prominence to a handful of key figures and have offered an over-simplified analytical framework, thereby overlooking the generic, moral, and formal complexities of the nascent genre.

Arthur W. Upfield

Author : A. J. Milnor
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443807753
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Arthur W. Upfield written by A. J. Milnor and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both Australia and Arthur W. Upfield (1890-1964) matured together. At the start of the last century, Upfield emigrated to Australia as that nation was gaining independence and identity. The Gallipoli campaign changed both, and both spent the next decades in pursuit of identity, he wandering, Australia finding its own unique place among nations. Arthur W. Upfield lived a life many might envy: unsuccessful student, immigrant (1911), walker, horse breaker and camel driver, soldier, Bushman, fence rider, journalist, intelligence officer, explorer, novelist, swordfisherman, and creator of bi-racial Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, “Bony”, in novels rivaling the popularity of Sherlock Holmes. Caught between two worlds, like his fictional character, Upfield was thoroughly English and yet also an Australian nationalist describing Outback Australia to the world through his part Aboriginal character. Famous novelists including Tony Hillerman and Stan Jones, to name only two, found a detective model in “Bony”. Australia developed quickly after the Second World War, and Upfield, too, was successful after years of tea, chops and damper, chasing “rabbit, ‘roo and dog”. As Australia developed, Upfield’s Bush, his “Australia Proper”, slowly succumbed to modernization. After the war, Upfield left the Bush to become a successful writer eventually to be published in a wide range of languages and selling books in the millions of copies. The biography relies on letters, papers, and public documents of the period, in Australia, England and America, many unexplored before now, in order to understand the story of his life and that of his true homeland, Australia.

The Mystery of a Hansom Cab

Author : Fergus Hume
Publisher : LA CASE Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mystery of a Hansom Cab written by Fergus Hume and published by LA CASE Books. This book was released on 2022-08-28 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of the classic work of nineteenth century mystery fiction, The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, by Fergus Hume (1859-1932). Originally published in 1886, and set in Victorian-era Melbourne, Australia, The Mystery of a Hansom Cab is the story of a mysterious body discovered in a hansom cab. The ensuing homicide investigation, led by our protagonist Detective Gorby, draws us into the long buried secrets of the rich and influential Frettlby family and the class struggles that divide the rich and poor in Victorian-era Melbourne, Australia. A lively and engaging novel, The Mystery of a Hansom Cab is still a sensational read for lovers of mysteries stories, and is also a must-read for fans of the genre as a pivotal example of the evolution of the genre from sensationalist crime literature to complex detective thrillers. The Mystery of a Hansom Cab was Australia's first international bestselling novel and remains one of the bestselling detective novels of the 19th century. Published one year prior to Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study In Scarlet, it was ground-breaking and genre-defining, and in fact old-sold this first of Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novels.

Literary Afterlife

Author : Bernard A. Drew
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 078645721X
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Literary Afterlife written by Bernard A. Drew and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-03-08 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an encyclopedic work, arranged by broad categories and then by original authors, of literary pastiches in which fictional characters have reappeared in new works after the deaths of the authors that created them. It includes book series that have continued under a deceased writer's real or pen name, undisguised offshoots issued under the new writer's name, posthumous collaborations in which a deceased author's unfinished manuscript is completed by another writer, unauthorized pastiches, and "biographies" of literary characters. The authors and works are entered under the following categories: Action and Adventure, Classics (18th Century and Earlier), Classics (19th Century), Classics (20th Century), Crime and Mystery, Espionage, Fantasy and Horror, Humor, Juveniles (19th Century), Juveniles (20th Century), Poets, Pulps, Romances, Science Fiction and Westerns. Each original author entry includes a short biography, a list of original works, and information on the pastiches based on the author's characters.

The Collected Works of Fergus Hume: 22 Thriller Novels

Author : Fergus Hume
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 4764 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Collected Works of Fergus Hume: 22 Thriller Novels written by Fergus Hume and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-09 with total page 4764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "The Collected Works of Fergus Hume: 22 Thriller Novels (Including The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, The Secret Passage, The Bishop's Secret, The Green Mummy, The Silent House, The Crowned Skull and more)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Fergus Hume (1859-1932) was a prolific English novelist. His self-published novel, "The Mystery of a Hansom Cab", became a great success. Hume based his descriptions of poor urban life on his knowledge of Little Bourke Street. It eventually became the best selling mystery novel of the Victorian era, author John Sutherland terming it the "most sensationally popular crime and detective novel of the century". Table of Contents The Mystery of a Hansom Cab Professor Brankel's Secret Madame Midas The Harlequin Opal The Expedition of Captain Flick Hagar of the Pawn-Shop The Silent House The Bishop's Secret A Woman's Burden The Pagan's Cup A Coin of Edward VII The Mandarin's Fan The Red Window The Secret Passage The Opal Serpent The Green Mummy The Crowned Skull The Solitary Farm The Mystery Queen Red Money A Son of Perdition The Caravan Mystery

Secret Mission to Melbourne, November, 1941

Author : Sky Phillips
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780897451482
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Secret Mission to Melbourne, November, 1941 written by Sky Phillips and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

WITH BLOOD, FROM BRITAIN: 350+ Murder Mystery Novels, True Crime Stories & Detective Tales

Author : Agatha Christie
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 : 802722974X
Total Pages : 18263 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book WITH BLOOD, FROM BRITAIN: 350+ Murder Mystery Novels, True Crime Stories & Detective Tales written by Agatha Christie and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 18263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Arthur Conan Doyle: Sherlock Holmes Series A Study in Scarlet The Sign of Four The Hound of the Baskervilles The Valley of Fear The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes The Return of Sherlock Holmes His Last Bow Other Mysteries True Crime Stories Edgar Wallace: The Four Just Men The Council of Justice The Just Men of Cordova The Law of the Four Just Men The Nine Bears Angel Esquire The Fourth Plague or Red Hand Grey Timothy or Pallard the Punter The Man who Bought London The Melody of Death A Debt Discharged The Tomb of T'Sin The Secret House The Clue of the Twisted Candle Down under Donovan The Man who Knew The Green Rust Kate Plus Ten The Daffodil Murder Jack O'Judgment The Angel of Terror The Crimson Circle Take-A-Chance Anderson The Valley of Ghosts P.-C. Lee Series Wilkie Collins: The Woman in White No Name Armadale The Moonstone The Haunted Hotel The Law and The Lady The Dead Secret Miss or Mrs? R. Austin Freeman: Dr. Thorndyke Series Other Mysteries Agatha Christie: The Mysterious Affair at Styles The Secret Adversary H. C. McNeile: Bulldog Drummond The Black Gang G. K. Chesterton: The Innocence of Father Brown The Wisdom of Father Brown Arthur Morrison: Martin Hewitt Series Dorrington & Hicks Stories Ernest Bramah: Max Carrados Stories Victor L. Whitechurch: The Canon in Residence Thrilling Stories of the Railway Thomas W. Hanshew: Hamilton Cleek Series E. W. Hornung: A. J. Raffles Series Mystery Novels J. S. Fletcher: Mystery Novels Paul Campenhaye – Specialist in Criminology Rober Barr: The Triumph of Eugéne Valmont Jennie Baxter, Journalist The Adventures of Sherlaw Kombs The Adventure of the Second Swag Frank Froest Mystery Novels C. N. Williamson & A. M. Williamson Mystery Novels Isabel Ostander Mystery Novels