AustLit

A London businessman hides a gambling win in his boots at Victoria Station to avoid the eye of his wife - but a clever apparently timid young woman gets into his carriage and at a later station accuses him of robbing her ... Wry twist to a middle-aged man's self-satisfaction. (PB)

Light romance set in Switzerland, New York and Stockingham, England. An American/English traveller and a British army captain's daughter meet in Switzerland and silently declare their love with an edelweiss. Her father separates them by falsely telling the suitor his daughter is already engaged. They are eventually revisited through a lace design of edelweiss she makes when forced to earn a living in England through her father's poverty and illness. (PB)

In Sacramento USA in the 1850s a sailor, delayed for a night on his journey to San Francisco deposits his gold in the bank. A financial collapse overnight renders his receipt worthless and he eventually disappears overboard on the voyage home. His fellow passengers redeem his money for his family ... competent, simple. (PB)

English suspense romance. A small English village seems peaceful until the simple church bell-ringer and organ-blower unknowingly fall in love with the graceful organist. All goes well until a handsome stranger arrives, a tenor who also falls in love with Louise and she with him ... A murderous confrontation in the church steeple follows (worthy of Hitchcock.) (PB)

A lover's death from his lady's singing. (PB)

A boating accident on an English river introduces Dr Clayton to the beautiful heiress Clara Hawthorn and her cowardly fiancee. Her adopted father's death and her fiancee's inheritance of his money in view of their forthcoming marriage free Clara to marry the doctor - and on opening her legacy of the silver casket, justice is restored. Entertaining. Includes an interlude of 'body contact' as Clayton teaches the heiress to row. (PB)

Tale of fortune-telling in San Francisco in 1856. Pictures are used to tell the life story of a sailing captain and predict his death by drowning in 1874. Competent. (PB)

The down-to-earth reception of a young lady selling romantic pictures by a newspaper reporter. (PB)

Two brothers-in-law mistake each other for burglars in the dark and a fracas results. (PB)

Humorous account of an attempt to enforce a contract made with General Sharman years before by parties far removed. Legal satire of sorts. (PB)

English/Australian romance at sea. In England, a sea captain and a governess meet, she fallen into reduced circumstances since their childhood. He suggests she accompany him to Melbourne on his next trip with the 'Edinburgh Castle', disguised as a widow, and with his help win a husband. She loves him but her pride will not reveal it until the night the ship is struck by a steamer ... Light intensity. (PB)

A standard bearing elephant stands firm on the Poona battlefield in India when its master is killed, and can only be moved when his little son soon arrives to do it. (PB)

A Sydney miser kills his beaten wife on the eve of leaving him and buries her with his money in the scrawny strawberry bed of his hovel. Mark Sinclair, the dead woman's twin brother and her son solve the case. Ironic comments from the author on twin brother character. (PB)

Tale of a man with a mysterious patch over one eye - worn because the eye was so inquisitive that people instantly became hostile. Tragedy results as the remaining clear eye becomes possessed by the same disability. Interesting, slight. Edgar Allan Poe touch. (PB)

A humorous writer must finish two articles to pay for the funeral of his infant daughter. (PB)

A traveller visits a supposedly haunted inn in Western Pennsylvania and is terrified by a ghastly midnight visitor to the room he shares with another guest. The morning reveals his fellow guest has died. Thin. (PB)

The sudden prosperity of a London shoemaker - due to the sensitive temperament of Lady Lumley who persuades her husband to get them to move. And the shoemaker's adoption of Lord Lumley's own business methods ... (PB)

English titled romance. Young Lady Isabel Dacre's romantic whim to banish the handsome noble soldier who had won her heart in Norway two years before, breaks his heart. Only when he narrowly avoids death does she realise how she truly loves him. (PB)