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'I hate ghosts! I've played follow-the-leader with a bunch of dead men, fronted up to a demon with all my runes round the wrong way, been half strangled by a book illustration, nearly killed by a bunyip in a launderette washing machine. So when Raissa invited me to a séance I was sure was a fake but turned out to be real, I knew there could only be trouble for Ernie Pine. And there was—wedging a witch, an apprentice magician, an alcoholic Vietnam veteran and me all too literally between the Devil and the deep blue sea…'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
Author's note:
The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea is based on the real life disappearance of Australia’s first submarine. On the afternoon of September 14, 1914, the HMAS AE 1 sailed into a fog off the coast of New Britain and was never seen again. Searches over the years with sophisticated sonar and underwater cameras have failed to find the wreck.
Source: Cooperative Ink (http://cooperativeink.com/cooperative-ink-artists/rick-kennett/). (Sighted: 16/6/2014)
Psychic detective Ernie Pine also appeared in the following short stories:
He also appears in the standalone novel Abracadabra (1998), based on the short story 'Bottle Green Dreams'.
