Death in Dreamtime was published by Wakefield Crime Classics in 1993. Originally published in 1959, S H Courtier is one of the classic crime fiction authors in Australia who is little known / commented on. Which is a pity.
In Death in Dreamtime Jock Corless ends up at...Read more
"I'm on to a filthy game. A game worse than murder." His cousin's baffling SOS sends Jack Corless speeding hundreds of miles north to Ungimillia, home of The Alchera or Dreamtime Land. In the shadows of the spectacle he finds murder and intrigue, but everywhere illusion and reality seem to...Read more
Set in Australia, it's a murder mystery that keeps you on the edge of your set. Excellence Aussie locale plays a strong role in murders committed during massive burnings caused by a draught across the countryside.Read more
Australia was in the grip of a tremendous heatwave, when a group of people living in Tyson's Bend in the remote Victorian Mallee, Australia, heard the news that their ticket had won £100,000 in a lottery. Excitedly they gathered at Sally Moyes' hotel to celebrate, but their delight quickly...Read more
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Because of a never-healed quarrel between Mike Langard's father and grandfather, 'Bregal' the house situated on the edge of large mangrove swamps, had lain empty for many years.
Now his grandfather was dead, and Mike had arrived in Gnarkona to take possession. To his astonishment...Read more
World-famous singer Polly MacMurtha had given many people strong cause to hate her, and most of them were present at her first recital on her return to Australia after fourteen years abroad.
Small wonder, then, when Polly was murdered during the interval, that Superintendent...Read more