Description
Here is Arthur Upfield's first published novel from 1929: Austilene Thorpe is accused of murder but then disappears from gaol. Her fiance, Martin Sherwood, goes blind from shock. His famous adventuring brother Monty, learns that Austilene is in a refuge for murderers in the far north-west corner of New South Wales near Tibooburra, and together the Sherwoods set out to find her and bring her back to Melbourne.
The idea of using the Australian outback as the locale for the novel of reclusive criminals forecasts Upfield's later interest. The landscape and meterology are well developed. The intensity of the Australian outback, to be much more powerfully developed later (in the Bony novels), is nearly overwhelming here.
- Ray Browne, The Spirit of Australia
Author: Arthur W. Upfield
Publisher: ETT Imprint
Published: 03/08/2019
Pages: 246
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d
ISBN13: 9781925706758
ISBN10: 1925706753
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Historical | General
- Fiction | Cultural Heritage
- Fiction | Psychological
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