The detective was still a new profession in the 1880s when English policeman Caspian arrives in Hobart Town, Van Dieman's Land (later Tasmania). Indeed, Sir Robert Peel’s Police had been in existence for a mere 20 years. The Shadow Hunter series follows the exploits of Caspian, a modern man who well understands the scientific advances of the times. He also understands human nature, including his own. he soon discovers that Hobart Town is populated by rogues, thieves, whalers, ex-convicts and scoundrels of every kind and colour.
Shadow Hunter
Hobart
:
Craig Godfrey
,
2015
9110234
2015
single work
novel
historical fiction
crime
'Caspian is a 19th century detective. His was a brand new profession – in the 1850s Sir Robert Peel’s Police had been in existence for a mere 20 years. Caspian is a modern man who well understands the scientific advances of the times. He also understands human nature, including his own. Hobart Town is still populated by rogues, thieves, whalers, ex-convicts and scoundrels of every kind and colour. There is an inn on every corner, and the ladies of the night take pride in their professional skills. They are especially skilled at parting the lads with their money. Caspian is slightly dissolute, a little overweight, and a little too susceptible to the delights of the flesh, and is not adverse to sampling the daunting choices of grog and colonial food available. A mystery ship, found abandoned but still sound, marks his arrival in the colony, indeed it becomes his first case. Then the bodies of the murder victims begin to accumulate. Eventually the governor and a senior aristocratic citizen of the colony are implicated.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
Shadow Hunter : Hunter, Hunted
Lindisfarne
:
Tasmania Writers Island
,
2016
10308565
2016
single work
novel
detective
historical fiction
'Hunter, Hunted is the story of the ongoing fortunes and misfortunes of Hobart Town sleuth Caspian Hunter in the British penal colony of Van Diemen's Land. The year is 1885.'
Source: Publication blurb.
