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2 2 y separately published work icon Botany Bay, or, True Stories of the Early Days of Australia John Lang , London : William Tegg , 1859 Z822154 1859 selected work short story
4 7 y separately published work icon The Forger's Wife, or, Emily Orford John Lang , London : William Tegg , 1859 Z1228137 1853 single work novel crime

'The Forger’s Wife (1856) is a lively adventure novel, set in an unruly colonial Sydney where everyone is on the make. The forger’s wife is a young woman who follows her rakish husband out to Australia and struggles to survive as her marriage falls apart. She soon meets Detective George Flower, a powerful man with a cavalier sense of justice and retribution. Flower literally controls the fortunes of the colony: taking on the local bushrangers, inspecting colonial authorities, and helping himself to the spoils along the way.

'First serialised in Fraser’s Magazine in 1852, The Forger’s Wife was popular in its time and was reprinted many times over. It is Australia’s first detective novel – and most likely, the first detective novel in the Anglophone world.' (From 2017 edition)
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