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Issue Details: First known date: 1937... 1937 Rumpelmayer's Reverser
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Rumpelmayer and his associate find a way to re-record gramophone records played backwards and palm them off as works by a Russian composer.

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Notes:
Also probably included in Pardon My Intrusion.
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Bulletin vol. 58 no. 3016 1 December 1937 Z592543 1937 periodical issue 1937 pg. 21-32
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Unk White's Laugh Parade Unk White , Sydney : Frank Johnson , 1940 Z1400928 1940 anthology prose poetry humour Sydney : Frank Johnson , 1940 pg. 30-34
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon It's Funny : Stories by Australia's Leading Humorists Les Robinson , Sydney : Frank Johnson , 1942 Z1400945 1942 selected work poetry Sydney : Frank Johnson , 1942 pg. 26-29
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Rumpelmayer's Reverser and Other Stories J. B. Blair , Sydney : Frank Johnson , 1944 Z1582025 1944 selected work short story humour

    These stories centre around the use of the Reacher-Outer-Bringer-Backer - "a device that enables one to hear conversations from bygone eras". The main character, Eddie Rumpelmayer, uses it for various absurd money-making schemes which inevitably go wrong.

    Blair, Richard. 'Blown to Blazes & Other Works of J.B. Blair and Jim Blair's years at The Bulletin (1934-1961)'

    Sydney : Frank Johnson , 1944
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