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Up and Down the Real Australia: Autobiographical Articles and The Murchison Murders

Up and Down the Real Australia: Autobiographical Articles and The Murchison MurdersUp and Down the Real Australia: Autobiographical Articles and The Murchison Murders (book)

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Up and Down the Real Australia is the second published collection of short works by Arthur Upfield. Kees de Hoog has selected 45 anecdotes and autobiographical articles about the 20 years from 1911 when Upfield first arrived in Australia. They cover his life and work in the outback, and his First World War service at Gallipoli and the Somme. It includes The Murchison Murders, Upfield’s account of how the "perfect murder" was developed for his second Bony novel, The Sands of Windee; how Snowy Rowles used it to commit at least one, probably three, murders in 1929; how the crime was solved; and what happened at Rowles’ trial in 1932.
Up and Down Australia

Up and Down AustraliaUp and Down Australia (book)

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Short Stories. Up and Down Australia is the first published collection of Arthur W Upfield's short works. Kees de Hoog has selected 33 fiction stories written by Upfield from 1926 to 1940, including the only known Bony short story, and has added the unfinished first chapter for another Bony novel. There are also comedies, crime fiction, adventure stories and dire tales about the dangers of living and working in the bush.