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Failed Shakespearean actor and would-be private detective William Power returns in this brilliant, wry sequel which recreates the tension and fear of World War II in Australia. Fresh from foiling a fiendish conspiracy to assassinate the Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne, Will Power's unique detective skills are, once again, in demand. The Japanese army is rampaging through the islands of the South Pacific and Australia's front line of defence is a top-secret, crack division of men embedded deep in the tropical wilderness of northern Australia. But something is threatening their vital, covert mission: one of this elite corps is a murderer, preying on his comrades, one by one. With a case too sensitive to be trusted to the police, military intelligence turn to the one man whose singular combination of abilities make him capable of infiltrating the clandestine military operation and rooting out the killer. Will Power goes into deep cover, posing as a cheap, vaudeville entertainer on tour to relieve the troops. Enlisting the help of his brother, whose latent skills for female impersonation rise to the occasion, Will soon finds himself in the far-northern outback trying to raise the morale of a group of desperate young soldiers lying in wait for the arrival of Tojo's army - knowing all the while that one of them is the killer. Amongst the Dead is a comic pastiche of the classic ripping yarn that thrills and entertains as its self-absorbed hero faces his greatest challenge yet - an unforgiving country infested with crocodiles and mosquitoes, a series of inscrutable murders obscured by tropical intrigue, and an audience too uncouth to appreciate the genius of the Bard.
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Robert Gott was born in the small Queensland town of Maryborough in 1957, and lives in Melbourne. He has published many books for children, and is also the creator of the newspaper cartoon The Adventures of Naked Man. He is also the author of the William Power trilogy of crime-caper novels set in 1940s Australia: Good Murder, A Thing of Blood, and Amongst the Dead.
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- EditorialScribe Publications
- Año de publicación2013
- ISBN 10 1921215240
- ISBN 13 9781921215247
- EncuadernaciónTapa blanda
- Número de páginas288
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Amongst the Dead (A William Power Mystery)
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Scribe, Melbourne, 2007
ISBN 10: 1921215240
ISBN 13: 9781921215247
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Librería: Hill End Books, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Nº de ref. del artículo: ABE-1716427251447
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Amongst the Dead. A William Power Mystery
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Scribe Publications, Carlton North, 2007
ISBN 10: 1921215240
ISBN 13: 9781921215247
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Librería: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia
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Soft Cover. Condición: F. First Edition. 8vo. original printed paper wraps; pp. [xii (last blank)], 270, with a map. A fine copy. The third William Power historical mystery novel, set in the Northern Territory in 1942. Nº de ref. del artículo: 031954
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