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Is part of William Power Mystery Robert Gott , 2004- series - author novel (number 2 in series)
Issue Details: First known date: 2005... 2005 A Thing of Blood
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'The fatally over-confident hero of Good Murder returns to pit his meagre detective skills against Army Intelligence, belligerent in-laws, a town full of GIs, and a creepy conspiracy to bring on an Australian sectarian nightmare.

'Failed Shakespearean actor and would-be private detective William Power returns to Melbourne in disgrace after a disastrous brush with theatre and murder in Maryborough. Bloodied, broken, but somehow unbowed, he arrives in a town struggling under war rationing and full of cocky American soldiers, and lands squarely in the bosom of his childhood home in Carlton – a home now dominated by his sister-in-law, the odious Darlene. But even Will's contempt is tempered when, in the early hours of the morning, Darlene is kidnapped, and Will finds his mother's kitchen splattered with blood and scattered with broken crockery.' (Publication summary)

Notes

  • Dedication: For my parents, Maurene and Kevin. Always.
  • Epigraph: '.....from face to foot
    He was a thing of blood, whose every motion
    Was timed with dying cries.'
    Coriolanus, Act 2, Sc 2, Vs 110

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Scribe , 2005 .
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      Extent: vii, 276pp.
      Description: illus., map
      Note/s:
      • Published: 1st October 2005
      ISBN: 1920769587
    • Brunswick, Brunswick - Coburg area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,: Scribe , 2015 .
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      Extent: 288p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 18 November 2015
      ISBN: 9781925321098
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Works about this Work

[Review] A Thing of Blood Shelly Orchard , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 31 December 2005; (p. 10)
— Review of A Thing of Blood Robert Gott , 2005 single work novel
Cool Crime Rick Thompson , 2005-2006 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December-January no. 277 2005-2006; (p. 61-62)
— Review of Snapshot Garry Disher , 2005 single work novel ; A Thing of Blood Robert Gott , 2005 single work novel ; Dirty Weekend Gabrielle Lord , 2005 single work novel
An Inept Sleuth and Murder Most Foul Jeff Glorfeld , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 29 October 2005; (p. 4)
— Review of A Thing of Blood Robert Gott , 2005 single work novel ; On, Off Colleen McCullough , 2005 single work novel
Sharp Wit from a Second Rate Sleuth Ed Wright , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 8-9 October 2005; (p. 22)
— Review of A Thing of Blood Robert Gott , 2005 single work novel
[Review] A Thing of Blood Sophie Groom , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Bookseller & Publisher , September vol. 85 no. 3 2005; (p. 69)
— Review of A Thing of Blood Robert Gott , 2005 single work novel
[Review] A Thing of Blood Sophie Groom , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Bookseller & Publisher , September vol. 85 no. 3 2005; (p. 69)
— Review of A Thing of Blood Robert Gott , 2005 single work novel
Sharp Wit from a Second Rate Sleuth Ed Wright , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 8-9 October 2005; (p. 22)
— Review of A Thing of Blood Robert Gott , 2005 single work novel
An Inept Sleuth and Murder Most Foul Jeff Glorfeld , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 29 October 2005; (p. 4)
— Review of A Thing of Blood Robert Gott , 2005 single work novel ; On, Off Colleen McCullough , 2005 single work novel
Cool Crime Rick Thompson , 2005-2006 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December-January no. 277 2005-2006; (p. 61-62)
— Review of Snapshot Garry Disher , 2005 single work novel ; A Thing of Blood Robert Gott , 2005 single work novel ; Dirty Weekend Gabrielle Lord , 2005 single work novel
[Review] A Thing of Blood Shelly Orchard , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 31 December 2005; (p. 10)
— Review of A Thing of Blood Robert Gott , 2005 single work novel
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  • Melbourne, Victoria,
  • 1940s
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