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Issue Details: First known date: 2023... 2023 To Kill a Crested Bellbird and Other Stories
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'The jury’s in, sequestered-slash-quarantined overnight on a serious criminal case in the suitably imposing Alice Springs courthouse. But the jury’s well and truly out on whether or not justice will be served, what with all the baggage the jurors have brought to the case, the misapprehensions. To say nothing of their phones to help combat Covid. Then there’s the judge’s baggage.

'The case, prosecuted in this collection’s novella, is encountered via short stories set even more remotely. They’re like unsettled little satellite settlements around any really remote town, outliers – outlaws – to the town’s edifice of law. But the police are never far away. Supposedly just eight minutes away, for instance, while a break-and-enter victim and the young trespasser watch very early morning commercial TV together waiting. Or left for dead – well, left floundering in a roadside ditch at least – by the Black Elvis, a modern, musical, Aboriginal, outback Robin Hood. Of sorts.

'Loosely law-themed, and loosely but lovingly illustrated, Crested Bellbird has many voices.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

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    • Arcadia, Dural - Galston area, Hornsby area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Bad Apple Press , 2023 .
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      Link: 28837725Access online Sighted: 23/09/2024
      Extent: 210p.p.
      ISBN: 9780646880464
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