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Issue Details: First known date: 1992... 1992 Wakefield Crime Classics
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y separately published work icon Vanishing Point Pat Flower , London : The Crime Club , 1975 Z987543 1975 single work novel crime London : The Crime Club , 1975
y separately published work icon Beat Not the Bones Charlotte Jay , London : Collins , 1952 Z870720 1952 single work novel crime

'Sudden, violent death enshrouded the island port of Marapai. The kind of death known only to voodoo cults and savages. On this island Europeans lost their civilization, their innocence–and their sanity. And famed anthropologist David Warwick lost his life. Rumors whispered suicide. But the rumors were lies. Everyone lied to haunted Emma Warwick, who suspected murder and set out to trap a killer–only to discover the very roots of terror!'

Source: Back cover blurb (Avon edition).

 Kent Town : Wakefield Press , 1992
y separately published work icon A Hank of Hair Charlotte Jay , London : Heinemann , 1964 Z870735 1964 single work novel crime detective horror 'Gilbert Hand hasn't been seen since his wife died. He's moved to a dull but respectable hotel where silence seems to brood in the hall and stairway. In a secret drawer he discovers a long, thick hank of human hair, and his world narrows down to two people - himself and the murderer.' (Publisher's blurb: Wakefield Crime Classics ed.) Kent Town : Wakefield Press , 1992
y separately published work icon The Whispering Wall Patricia Carlon , London : Hodder and Stoughton , 1969 Z116138 1969 single work novel crime Sarah is a stroke victim who has lost the power of speech and movement. Lying in her bed she overhears through the walls of a plan by her tenants to murder someone. Sarah must warn the other members of the household before it is too late. (Source: Trove) Kent Town : Wakefield Press , 1992
y separately published work icon The Misplaced Corpse A. E. Martin , Sydney : N.S.W. Bookstall Company , 1944 Z116238 1944 single work novel crime humour detective Kent Town : Wakefield Press , 1992
y separately published work icon Ligny's Lake S. H. Courtier , London : Robert Hale , 1971 Z266177 1971 single work novel crime Ligny's Lake, a thriller that weirdly echoes the disappearance of Prime Minister Harold Holt. A dead man alive at Melbournes Festival Hall...a merino-shaped lake...a stolen copy of Thoreaus Walden...ASIO's wall of silence...Sandy Carmichael can pick up the pieces, but to fit the jigsaw together, he needs to risk his life. Kent Town : Wakefield Press , 1992
y separately published work icon The Secret of the Garden Arthur Gask , London : Herbert Jenkins , 1924 Z998016 1924 single work novel crime

'He tells of an Adelaide bank clerk, Archibald Cups, who is found guilty of embezzlement, and sentenced to imprisonment for five years, although he is innocent. Escaping from custody, he conceals himself in the home of Judge Cartright, who had sentenced him. From there he flees to the house next door, where lives Dr. Carmichael, an eccentric surgeon, who performs an operation on the nose of Cups, thus changing his appearance. The two live together as friends for some time, until the surgeon dies as the result of an accident. Cups impersonates him (he had lived as a recluse, seeing practically nobody, and having no servants), and actually realises his estate. Eventually, after some hard knocks, fortune favours the innocent Cups, and the story ends happily.'

Source:

'New Novels', The Australasian, 10 January 1925, p.55.

 Kent Town : Wakefield Press , 1993
y separately published work icon Sinners Never Die A. E. Martin , 1944 single work novel crime detective Kent Town : Wakefield Press , 1993
y separately published work icon Death in Dream Time S. H. Courtier , London : Hammond & Co. , 1959 Z77722 1959 single work novel crime Kent Town : Wakefield Press , 1993
y separately published work icon The Souvenir Patricia Carlon , London : Hodder and Stoughton , 1970 Z77945 1970 single work novel crime mystery 'An early-morning murder in the park of a quiet country town. Two hitch-hiking girls, one of them guilty - one of them a liar. Four years on, Marion still has to know who killed her brother. The police, the press and ordinary people have lost interest in the case. She needs to call on Jefferson Shields - she's been told that he solves puzzles.

You'll be baffled to the end of The Souvenir.' (Publisher's blurb)
 Kent Town : Wakefield Press , 1993
y separately published work icon Arms for Adonis Charlotte Jay , London : Collins , 1960 Z871222 1960 single work novel crime detective

'The blood of Adonis, thought Sarah, remembering the church that was built like a pagan temple. Coquelicot rouge - the symbol of a dying man whose blood stained the hillside in the spring.

'Sarah Lane, abandoning her French lover for the brilliant Lebanese sunshine, believes that the day will belong to her alone. But when a street bomb hurls her into the arms of a dangerously handsome Syrian colonel, she finds herself trapped once again. Is this a kidnapping? A seduction? Or merely the chaos of the Middle-East?'

Source: Publisher's blurb (Wakefield Press 2019 ed.)

 Kent Town : Wakefield Press , 1994
y separately published work icon Common People A. E. Martin , 1943 single work novel crime detective Kent Town : Wakefield Press , 1994
y separately published work icon A Hank of Hair Charlotte Jay , London : Heinemann , 1964 Z870735 1964 single work novel crime detective horror 'Gilbert Hand hasn't been seen since his wife died. He's moved to a dull but respectable hotel where silence seems to brood in the hall and stairway. In a secret drawer he discovers a long, thick hank of human hair, and his world narrows down to two people - himself and the murderer.' (Publisher's blurb: Wakefield Crime Classics ed.) Mile End : Wakefield Press , 2019

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