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Skillfully crafted short stories set in the Australian outback in the 1930s to 1950s. Great humour. Tall stories. Wit as dry as a dead dingos dongers. Laugh and cry with the bush characters, Paddy, Timber, Taffy, Dutchy, Ding Dong, Rusty, Squeaky, Stinky, Butch and many others. Meet them at the Commercial and Railway hotels, Joe the Greek's cafe, at the sale yards, on the farm or in the bush. As Aussie as CWA, lamingtons, damper, Holden cars, ...

March 1948. Two months ago, Detective Harry Taylor survived an assassination attempt by a well-known Sydney criminal, orchestrated by the two most famous detectives in the CIB. His investigations led to their gaoling. It earned him the contempt of many in the police force, including the chief superintendent and those who benefited from their corruption. Harry could not remain in Sydney.Promoted to detective sergeant, Harry was transferred to W...

Australia, 1948. Detective Harry Taylor, an injured war hero, returns from investigating two murders in a small country town, to be confronted by the increasingly violent crime scene in Sydney. The existing underworld figures and corrupt officials have been entrenched in illegal gambling, prostitution, robbery and drugs in the hotspots of Kings Cross, Wooloomooloo, Surry Hills, The Rocks and Marrickville. Attracted by the rich pickings in Sydn...

A fictional murder mystery set in a small Australian country town in 1947.Secrecy, anxiety, distractions and threats surround the murder of a naked young woman whose body is found on an ants' nest in the bush with a Christian cross cut into her forehead.The normally laid back culture and dry sense of humour of this outback post-WWII community is shattered by this dramatic event.Detective Harry Taylor, a damaged and flawed war hero, returns fro...