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Alternative title: Magpie Series
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Popular fiction issued in two separately numbered series with titles in the genres of adventure, mystery, romance, crime and detection. The motto on inside back covers reads: "there is nothing like a Magpie to make the hours fly.' The series claimed to be 'by far the finest and cheapest books yet issued in Australia'. Books in the first series were 5.5 x 8.5 inches and may have been issued in plain wrappers; those in the second series were 5.5 x 7.25 inches with pictorial covers. Price for second series title was two shillings and the books were 'available at all newsagents.'

Includes

Magpie Books : Second Series Magpie Selected Story Frank Johnson (publisher), series - publisher
Magpie Books : First Series Frank Johnson (publisher), series - publisher
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y separately published work icon Yarns Men Tell John Crothers , Sydney : Frank Johnson , 1941 Z806733 1941 single work novel Sydney : Frank Johnson , 1941
2
y separately published work icon Strange Luck Gully John Crothers , Sydney : Frank Johnson , 1941 Z806730 1941 single work novel Sydney : Frank Johnson , 1941
3
y separately published work icon The Glorious Scandal and the Worst Man in Australia John Crothers , Sydney : Frank Johnson , 1941 Z806724 1941 single work short story Sydney : Frank Johnson , 1941
4
y separately published work icon The Vampire of Love John Crothers , Sydney : Frank Johnson , 1941 Z806727 1941 single work novel Sydney : Frank Johnson , 1941
6
y separately published work icon Hidden Hills John Carlshon , Sydney : Frank Johnson , 1941 Z804474 1941 single work novel Sydney : Frank Johnson , 1941
15
y separately published work icon Jean of the Tussock Country Walter Smyth , London : Mills and Boon , 1928 Z1464635 1928 single work novel western Sydney : Frank Johnson , 1942
17
y separately published work icon The Girl from Mason Creek Walter Smyth , London : Mills and Boon , 1929 Z1464704 1929 single work novel Sydney : Frank Johnson , 1941
18
y separately published work icon Wooden Rails Walter Smyth , London : Mills and Boon , 1930 Z1464682 1930 single work novel Sydney : Frank Johnson , 1942
19
y separately published work icon Order in the Court C. K. Thompson , Sydney : Frank Johnson , 1942 Z1683351 1942 single work novel Sydney : Frank Johnson , 1942
30
y separately published work icon Typist Tales and Tales E. M. Anderson , Sydney : Frank Johnson , 1944 Z814754 1944 selected work short story Sydney : Frank Johnson , 1944
41
y separately published work icon Break Neck Bernard Cronin , Sydney : Frank Johnson , 1945 Z811704 1945 single work novel Sydney : Frank Johnson , 1945
43
y separately published work icon Final Leave Gwen Beaumont , Sydney : Frank Johnson , 1945 Z811701 1945 single work novel Sydney : Frank Johnson , 1945
46
y separately published work icon The Shadows Mystery Bernard Cronin , Sydney : Frank Johnson , 1944 Z811099 1944 single work novel Sydney : Frank Johnson , 1944
47
y separately published work icon The Black Feather Edgar Cutcheon , Sydney : Frank Johnson , 1945 Z807053 1945 single work novel Sydney : Frank Johnson , 1945
48
y separately published work icon The Black Spider Zelma Roberts , Hal Saunders , Sydney : Frank Johnson , 1945 Z1062283 1945 single work novel crime detective Sydney : Frank Johnson , 1945
53
y separately published work icon The Truth About Thunderbolt : Australia's 'Robin Hood' Annie Rixon , Sydney : George M. Dash , 1940 Z1384172 1940 single work novel Sydney : Frank Johnson , 1945
54
y separately published work icon They're Coming to Get Me Hal H. Carleton , Sydney : Frank Johnson , 1940-1949 Z804444 1940-1949 single work novella Sydney : Frank Johnson , 1940-1949
56
y separately published work icon Rivals D. Railton , Sydney : Frank Johnson , 1940-1949 Z1682632 1940-1949 single work novel Sydney : Frank Johnson , 1940-1949
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y separately published work icon Far Caravan E. V. Timms , 1935 single work novel adventure romance

A 'story of those semi-barbarous times when Russia, sleeping the eternal, dream-haunted sleep of Asia, was awakened and torn asunder by the implacable ambition and modernism of Nikon, the celebrated patriarch, and the medieval conservatism of the wild mountaineers, the peasants, and the Cossacks. In the strife between Nikon's new Latin cross, and the old eight-pointed cross of the Othodox Church, all the hatred of religious conflict was loosed upon the land of Russia, and death and torture were unchained.' (Dust jacket blurb)

 Sydney : Frank Johnson , 1940-1949
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Blue North : Being a Narrative Concerning Incidents and Adventures Which Befell John Fordyce When He Went in Search of Freedom and Pearls in the Year 1876 Henrietta Drake-Brockman , 1934 single work novel Sydney : Frank Johnson , 1946
59
y separately published work icon Death of a Fan Dancer John Carlshon , Sydney : Frank Johnson , 1946 Z804477 1946 single work novel Sydney : Frank Johnson , 1946
65
y separately published work icon Bullets Bite Deep John Carlshon , Sydney : Frank Johnson , 1946 Z804471 1946 single work novel Sydney : Frank Johnson , 1946
68
y separately published work icon Death's Mannikins : Being a Sober Account of Certain Diabolical Happenings Not Untinged with the Odour of Brimstone Which Befell a Respectable Family Living at Exmoor in This Present Year Death Plays with Dolls Max Afford , London : John Long , 1937 Z814316 1937 single work novel detective horror thriller

'Freelance sleuth Jeffery Blackburn is called in by friend Rollo Morgan when there is a strange death at Rochester House, mansion home of occult scholar Cornelius Rochester. Blackburn learns of a set of mannikins modelled on the occupants of the house. Before long, it becomes clear that whoever receives 'their' mannikin will certainly die. Everyone in the house is a suspect.'

Source: Publisher's blurb

 Sydney : Frank Johnson , 1947
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y separately published work icon Blood in the Bagnio Frank Bruno , Z1680489 1950-1959 single work novel crime
80
y separately published work icon The Toll Bar Ron Tullipan , Sydney : Frank Johnson , 1940-1949 Z1461818 1940-1949 single work novel Sydney : Frank Johnson , 1940-1949
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y separately published work icon No Train on Tuesday J. B. Blair , 1937 Z384581 1937 single work novel Sydney : Frank Johnson , 1947
94
y separately published work icon Such Moments Les Such , Sydney : Frank Johnson , 1940-1949 Z1683297 1940-1949 single work novel Sydney : Frank Johnson , 1940-1949
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y separately published work icon The Glass Jaw Ron Tullipan , Sydney : Frank Johnson , 1940-1949 Z1391261 1940-1949 single work novel thriller Sydney : Frank Johnson , 1940-1949
y separately published work icon Death's Mannikins : Being a Sober Account of Certain Diabolical Happenings Not Untinged with the Odour of Brimstone Which Befell a Respectable Family Living at Exmoor in This Present Year Death Plays with Dolls Max Afford , London : John Long , 1937 Z814316 1937 single work novel detective horror thriller

'Freelance sleuth Jeffery Blackburn is called in by friend Rollo Morgan when there is a strange death at Rochester House, mansion home of occult scholar Cornelius Rochester. Blackburn learns of a set of mannikins modelled on the occupants of the house. Before long, it becomes clear that whoever receives 'their' mannikin will certainly die. Everyone in the house is a suspect.'

Source: Publisher's blurb

 Sydney : Frank Johnson , 1945
Last amended 12 Dec 2005 10:17:03
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