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y separately published work icon Death and the Running Patterer single work   novel   crime   detective   historical fiction  
Is part of Nicodemus Dunne Mysteries Robin Adair , 2009 series - author novel (number 1 in series)
Issue Details: First known date: 2009... 2009 Death and the Running Patterer
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Sydney, 1828. All is not well. One of the convict colony's soldiers had been murdered and Governor Ralph Darling is not pleased. Reluctantly, he turns to Nicodemus Dunne for help. Dunne, a fallen Bow Street Runner now transported to Australia, makes his living as a running patterer, hawking news on the dusty streets. Only he has the detective skills required to chase down the ritual killer and stop the ever-bewildering series of gruesome murders that follow the first. As he searches, Dunne joins forces with the entrancing seamstress Rachel Dormin and soon discovers that too many people, from the Governor down, have secrets worth killing for. When he gets too close to unveiling the murderer and to the secrets buried in his own past, even his life hangs in the balance. (Publisher's website)

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Notes

  • Dedication: For Julie
  • Epigraph: Tis wonderful what fable will not do! 'Tis said it makes reality more bearable; But what's reality? Who has it's clue? -Lord Byron, Don Juan (1819-24)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Camberwell, Camberwell - Kew area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Michael Joseph , 2009 .
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      Extent: 311p.
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      Note/s:
      • Published June 29th 2009
      ISBN: 9781921518256 (pbk.)

Works about this Work

Off the Shelf : Crime Fiction Dianne Dempsey , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 8 August 2009; (p. 23)

— Review of Death and the Running Patterer Robin Adair , 2009 single work novel
Case of Murder in the Headlines Ron Cerabona , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 11 July 2009; (p. 10)
On the Trail of a Colonial Killer Steve Meacham , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 20-21 June 2009; (p. 26-27) The Age , 20 June 2009; (p. 27)
Off the Shelf : Crime Fiction Dianne Dempsey , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 8 August 2009; (p. 23)

— Review of Death and the Running Patterer Robin Adair , 2009 single work novel
On the Trail of a Colonial Killer Steve Meacham , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 20-21 June 2009; (p. 26-27) The Age , 20 June 2009; (p. 27)
Case of Murder in the Headlines Ron Cerabona , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 11 July 2009; (p. 10)
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