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The anthology of colonial Australian crime fiction / edited by Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Crime--Australia--Fiction.
- Crime.
- Detective and mystery stories, Australian.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 271 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Carlton, Victoria : Melbourne University Press, 2008.
- Summary:
- From the editors of The Anthology of Colonial Australian Gothic Fiction comes this fascinating collection of disturbing mysteries and gruesome tales by authors such as Mary Fortune, James Skipp Borlase, Guy Boothby, Francis Adams, Ernest Favenc, 'Rolf Boldrewood' and Norman Lindsay, among many others. In the bush and the tropics, the goldfields and the city streets, colonial Australia is a troubling, bewildering place and almost impossible to regulate--even for the most vigilant detective. Ex-convicts, bushrangers, ruthless gold prospectors, impostors, thieves and murderers flow through the stories that make up this collection, challenging the nascent forces of colonial law and order. The landscape itself seems to stimulate criminal activity, where identities change at will and people suddenly disappear without a trace. The Anthology of Colonial Australian Crime Fiction is a remarkable anthology that taps into the fears and anxieties of colonial Australian life.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title
- Contents
- Colonial Australian Crime Fiction
- Barrington (1859)
- Tales of Adventure by a Log-Fire (1859)
- The Dead Witness, or, The Bush Waterhole (1866)
- The Major's Case (1895)
- Tale of a Skull (1867)
- In Australian Wilds (1870)
- The Trooper's Story of the Bank Robbery (1872)
- The Premier's Secret (1887)
- Dr. Fletcher's Love Story (1892)
- The Sea Gave Up Its Dead (1892)
- My Only Murder (1899)
- One of the Cloth (1897)
- A Stripe for Trooper Casey (1898)
- Midnight (1898)
- Le Premier Pas (1899)
- The Mailman's Yarn (1901)
- The Bardoc Finn (1911)
- The Strip of Lining (1912)
- The Gangster (1933)
- Notes on the Authors
- Publication Sources
- Acknowledgements
- Copyright.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [270]-271).
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780522858983
- 0522858988
- OCLC:
- 1493618574
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