On the evening of 28 February an enthusiastic crowd gathered at the Australian National University to hear Dervla McTiernan discuss her books about Galway detective...
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Canberra Weekly 9 April 2020 This week in the Canberra Weekly I review three enjoyable novels to read over the Easter long weekend. First up is Lucy Foley’s...
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Murder Can’t Stop by W. T. Ballard (Phantom #644, 1955) Australian Phantom Books were produced between 1951 and 1961. During that time they released around 300...
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An Ear For Murder by Max Afford (Magpie, 1947?) Magpie Books were published by Frank Johnson Pty Ltd in the 1940s and 1950s. They ran for two series and focused on...
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Canberra Weekly 19 March 2020 This week in the Canberra Weekly I reviewed three very good novels by Australian women authors. First up is Karina Kilmore’s...
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The Unorthodox Corpse by Carter Brown (Horwitz, 1965) Horwitz were arguably the prime Australian publishers of paperbacks and pulp fiction in the 1950s and 60s....
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