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Issue Details: First known date: 1933... 1933 Charles Bury Stories
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The cases of Senior Detective Charles Bury, who operates in Melbourne (and occasionally regional Victoria).

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y separately published work icon Underground S. H. Courtier , 1933 9668075 1933 single work novel crime

Spurious sovereigns are the trail which leads Charles Bury, special detective, to Bendigo. But the officer is confronted by no mere counterfeiting plot. He finds himself opposed to a tremendously powerful organisation dominated by a master criminal who directs his operations from a base near the goldmines.'

Source:

[Advertisement], The Argus, 13 January 1933, p.6.
A Matter of Habit S. H. Courtier , 1933 single work short story crime
— Appears in: The Argus , 1 July 1933; (p. 6) Charles Bury unravels a cunning murder by spotting the criminal's habitual behaviour.
y separately published work icon The Missing Wife S. H. Courtier , 1934 9668424 1934 single work novel crime

' A happy husband and his wife are motoring to their home after a per- fect honeymoon. While the husband Is buying cigarettes his wife disappears. The husband and the investigating detective have many adventures before the mj-stery is solved and the wife is restored.'

Source:

[Advertisement], The Argus, 13 April 1934, p.10.
The Third Copy S. H. Courtier , 1938 single work short story crime
— Appears in: The World's News , 15 October 1938; (p. 24-25, 44) A Charles Bury detective story, but told from the perspective of the criminal.
The Accidental Clue S. H. Courtier , 1938 single work short story crime
— Appears in: The World's News , 12 November 1938; (p. 24-25, 42) Inspector Charles Bury investigates the murder of Silas Embrock.
The Voice S. H. Courtier , 1939 single work short story crime
— Appears in: The World's News , 4 March 1939; (p. 8-9, 33) A woman, confined to her bed with a badly injured spine, calls Inspector Charles Bury to see her, to ask him to find her missing husband.
The Dream S. H. Courtier , 1938 single work short story crime
— Appears in: The World's News , 3 September 1938; (p. 8-9, 43) Senior Detective Charles Bury recounts the time that Mona Wheeling came into his office and told him she had dreamt of her husband's murder.

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