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6 y separately published work icon Breakaway House Arthur W. Upfield , 1932 Z1369398 1932 single work novel mystery detective crime

'Harry Tremayne, a policeman, goes to an isolated valley in the remote Murchison region of Western Australia to find his brother - who vanished a month earlier while investigating the murder of a police detective. Do the gold smugglers at Breakaway House hold the answers to the mystery?

'First published as a serial in the Perth Daily News in 1932, the real setting for the book is Mt Magnet, about 150k north of Perth, deep in gold country.' (Publication summary)

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