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form y separately published work icon Three Acts of Murder single work   film/TV   crime  
Alternative title: Blood in the Sand
Issue Details: First known date: 2009... 2009 Three Acts of Murder
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While working on a rabbit-proof fence in 1929, Australia's leading crime writer of the period, Arthur Upfield, began plotting the perfect murder for his 1931 novel The Sands of Windee. A discussion between Upfield and a fellow worker about finding a fool-proof means of disposing of a body to use in the novel was overheard by one of the author's friends, stockman 'Snowy' Rowles. Shortly afterwards Rowles murdered three men and put the scheme into effect. He was later charged by police, however, and the subsequent trial became one of Australia's most sensational during the 1930s.

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First known date: 2009
    • Perth, Western Australia,: Taylor Media , 2009 .
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y separately published work icon The Sands of Windee Arthur W. Upfield , 1932 Z1515870 1931 single work novel crime detective

'An Inspector Bonaparte Mystery featuring Bony, the first Aboriginal detective. Why had Luke Marks driven specially out to Windee? Had he been murdered or had he,as the local police believed, wandered away from his car and been overwhelmed in a dust-storm? When Bony noticed something odd in the background of a police photograph, he begins to piece together the secrets of the sands of Windee. Here is the original background to the infamous Snowy Rowles murder trial.'
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Lost in the Sands of Time Ruth Ritchie , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 20-21 June 2009; (p. 19)
— Review of Three Acts of Murder Ian David , 2009 single work film/TV
Perfect Crime 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 14 June 2009; (p. 3)
— Review of Three Acts of Murder Ian David , 2009 single work film/TV
By the Book Graeme Blundell , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 13-14 June 2009; (p. 24-25)
Convicted on a Fence Neale Prior , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: The West Australian , 11 June 2009; (p. 5)
Bille Still on the Boil Marie-Christine Sourris , 2009 single work biography
— Appears in: The Sunday Mail , 7 June 2009; (p. 14)
Killer Idea Neale Prior , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 6 June 2009; (p. 18)
— Review of Three Acts of Murder Ian David , 2009 single work film/TV
Perfect Crime 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 14 June 2009; (p. 3)
— Review of Three Acts of Murder Ian David , 2009 single work film/TV
Lost in the Sands of Time Ruth Ritchie , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 20-21 June 2009; (p. 19)
— Review of Three Acts of Murder Ian David , 2009 single work film/TV
Murder in the Murchison Ben O'Shea , 2008 single work column
— Appears in: The West Australian , 26 May 2008; (p. 5)
The Writer and the Murderer Bridget McManus , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 11 June 2009; (p. 12-13)
Bille Still on the Boil Marie-Christine Sourris , 2009 single work biography
— Appears in: The Sunday Mail , 7 June 2009; (p. 14)
Convicted on a Fence Neale Prior , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: The West Australian , 11 June 2009; (p. 5)
By the Book Graeme Blundell , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 13-14 June 2009; (p. 24-25)
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Last amended 10 May 2013 10:10:59
Rowan Woods
Subjects:
  • ca. 1920-1930
Settings:
  • Murchison, Eneabba - Morawa - Mullewa area, Southwest Western Australia, Western Australia,
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