Dorothy Johnston
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According to local legend, the historic Royal hotel in the Victorian coastal town of Queenscliff is haunted. Having served as both a mental asylum and a morgue in the early days, it could hardly fail to be, but a bizarre murder in the hotel's basement puts a decidedly eerie spin on things.
The victim is an academic, obsessed with spiritualism, the tarot and the town's most famous literary resident, Henry Handel Richardson. From the outset, the local...
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All children were a mixture of innocence and guile, Chris Blackie thought, but the innocence had been squashed out of Boby McGilvrey unnaturally young.
A shocking murder rocks the quiet coastal Victorian town of Queenscliff, a place where police work usually entails minor traffic infringements and dealing with the occasional Saturday night drunk.
Local senior constable Chris Blackie and his deputy Anthea Merritt fully expect a murder investigation...
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The stories in Eight Pieces on Prostitution span the whole of Dorothy Johnston's writing life and includes her first published story, The Man Who Liked to Come with the News, which Frank Moorhouse chose for his 1983 anthology, The State of the Art.
Dorothy Johnston's first novel, Tunnel Vision, was set in a Melbourne massage parlour, and the theme of prostitution runs through several of her works, notably in The House at Number 10 and now in this...
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A young camel disappears from its trainer's paddock and the coat of a murdered woman is found abandoned in the sand dunes. These seemingly unrelated events are a far cry from the regular police duties of Constable Chris Blackie and his rookie recruit from Melbourne, Anthea Merritt, in the small Australian seaside town of Queenscliff.
Little by little and with a burgeoning sense of menace, these two unlikely detectives carefully navigate the eclectic,...