Patricia Carlon

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Who Are You, Linda Condrick?

Submitted by Karen on

Author's Home Country: 
Australia
Category: 
Crime Fiction

The contentious relatives living on the remote Forst sheep station are united against an interloper from Sydney who was hired to nurse old Mrs. Forst in her last illness. Now the heir, Gregory Forst, has become engaged to marry her and the others fear that they will be turned out of the valley. A bushfire rages, threatening all of their homesteads. And then, the charred body of a swagman is found. How did he die? Could he have been murdered? By the outsider, the nurse?

Who, really, is Linda Condrick?

ISBN: 
1569472580
Location: 
Country NSW
Publisher: 
Soho Press
Year of Publication: 
2003

The Whispering Wall

Submitted by Karen on

Author's Home Country: 
Australia
Category: 
Crime Fiction

Blurb About the Book

Confined to her bed by a stroke, believed to be comatose, and surrounded by greedy relatives, Sarah Oatland overhears a plot to commit murder.
 

In this historical novel, Simpson intertwines real historical events and figures with her own fictions, to 'map the silences' that traditional history leaves untouched. She masterfully weaves the reality of the darkness of Van Diemen's Land with brilliantly realised imaginings of the past on this remote island at the end of the earth.

 
ISBN: 
1569471118
Publisher: 
Soho Press
Year of Publication: 
2001

Patricia Carlon

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Author Information
Carlon, Patricia

About the Author

Patricia Carlon (1927-2002) was born in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, but during her life was mostly unknown / under-appreciated by publishers in Australia.

Fortunately she lived just long enough to see local interest revive in her work, but not long enough to see the justified increased interest.

DEATH BY DEMONSTRATION - Patricia Carlon

Author Information
Book Title: 
Death by Demonstration
Author Name: 
Patricia Carlon
Author's Home Country: 
Australia
ISBN: 
1569472572
Categorisation
Category: 
Crime Fiction
Publisher: 
Soho Press
Year of Publication: 
2002

It's the Sixties and Australian university students are marching against the war. They are demanding the release of a conscientious objector. Somehow a peaceful demonstration turns into a riot.

A young woman student is struck down and killed. The demonstrators are blamed by an outraged public. The students accuse the police. Most people assume that somehow an unfortunate accident occurred. But was Robyn Calder's death an accident? Or was she murdered? Private detective Jefferson Shields is called upon to find the answer before the wrong person can be made a scapegoat.

Book Review: 

This book is quite different from Patricia Carlon's usual psychological mysteries, and it is far from her best work. Originally published in 1970, this book shows its age, not just in style but in the plot. The plot had potential, but is let down by boring characters and what I believe was the author's political agenda.

What action there is gets bogged down by the long tedious speeches that most of the characters would launch into at every opportunity.  Although this was only a short book by today's standards (190 p.), it seemed much longer, and I found myself skimming many of the longer passages of dialogue.

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