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Mystery and Murder single work   short story   crime  
Is part of Memoirs of an Australian Police Officer James Skipp Borlase , Mary Fortune , 1865 series - author short story The Detective's Album Mary Fortune , Hugh Dalmore , Rex Grayson , A. C. Eiseman , M. Joseph Lynch , 1865 series - publisher
Issue Details: First known date: 1866... 1866 Mystery and Murder
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All Publication Details

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 1 no. 24 10 February 1866 Z1061763 1866 periodical issue 1866 pg. 376-378
    Note: Published anonymously.
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Night Fossickers and Other Australian Tales of Peril and Adventure James Skipp Borlase , London : Frederick Warne , 1867 Z562535 1867 selected work short story crime children's London : Frederick Warne , 1867 pg. 226-239
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 44 no. 524 January 1909 Z1086634 1909 periodical issue 1909 pg. 49-52
    Note: Appears as part of 'The Detective's Album' series under the name W. W.
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Australian Short Story Before Lawson Cecil Hadgraft (editor), Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1986 Z397319 1986 anthology short story Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1986 pg. 119-130
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Anthology of Colonial Australian Gothic Fiction Ken Gelder (editor), Rachael Weaver (editor), Carlton : Melbourne University Press , 2007 Z1415120 2007 anthology short story extract horror mystery science fiction historical fiction children's (taught in 7 units)

    'This anthology collects the best examples of Australian gothic short stories from colonial times. Demonic bird cries, grisly corpses, ghostly women and psychotic station-owners populate a colonial landscape which is the stuff of nightmares.

    'In stories by Marcus Clarke, Mary Fortune and Henry Lawson, the colonial homestead is wracked by haunted images of murder and revenge. Settlers are disoriented and traumatised as they stumble into forbidden places and explorers disappear, only to return as ghostly figures with terrible tales to tell. These compelling stories are the dark underside to the usual story of colonial progress, promise and nation-building, and reveal just how vivid the gothic imagination is at the heart of Australian fiction.' (Publication summary)

         Carlton : Melbourne University Press , 2007     pg. 31-44
Subjects:
  • 1855
  • 1856
Settings:
  • Hobart City, Central Hobart, Hobart, Southeast Tasmania, Tasmania,
  • Tasmania,
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