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y separately published work icon The Sweet Myst : A Sort of Detective Story single work   novel   detective  
Is part of Traven Collins Series Colin Talbot , 1995 series - author novel (number 2 in series)
Issue Details: First known date: 2014... 2014 The Sweet Myst : A Sort of Detective Story
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'Traven Collins is a sort of detective. He's not really a detective, more what you might call a burnt-out case who was a writer and now who'll take most any kind of writing job to pay the rent. If it's interesting. He lives in a nice seaside suburb of Melbourne with down-and-outers, stand over merchants and ice addicts at one end and pimps, thieves, hookers and transexual rent boys at the other. Traven takes a job from an old friend to promote the visit of the last American beat poet, Duke Weston, who claims to have been a friend of Kerouac & Burroughs etc. Things are going averagely until the first death – which is seems to be a hit & run but proves to be a murder. And then the next one...that's murder too. Both of the victims were poets. With his trusty sidekick, the brilliant border collie Maynard G Crabs, Traven sets out to make sure he doesn't become embroiled in these murders most foul & most horrid. And he has to protect Lexi, the young lady who couldn't possibly be his daughter - could she? ' (Publication summary)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • St Kilda, Caulfield - St Kilda area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Moody Place , 2014 .
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      Extent: 270p.
      Written as: Colin Taddy Talbot
      Note/s:
      • Published 1 September 2014
      ISBN: 9780992518707
Last amended 8 Nov 2023 10:24:21
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  • St Kilda, Caulfield - St Kilda area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,
  • Byron Bay, Byron Bay - Broken Head area, Far North Coast, New South Wales,
  • 2014
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