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Is part of A Sea-Change Mystery Dorothy Johnston , 2015 series - author novel (number 1 in series)
Issue Details: First known date: 2015... 2015 Through a Camel's Eye
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''Still, he looked for hoof prints, glad there was nobody to laugh at him for doing so. He shaded his eyes and squinted at a dark object, half covered in sand, then began to walk towards it. He should should have been wearing sunglasses to protect his eyes, but he never thought of things like that. It was a women's coat, black, or at least it has been.'

'A young camel disappears from its trainers paddock and the coat of a murdered women is found abandoned in the sand dunes. These seemingly unrelated events are a far cry from the regular police duties of Constable Chris Blackie and his rookie recruit from Melbourne, Anthea Merritt, in the small seaside town of Queenscliff. Little by little and with a burgeoning sense of menace, these two unlikely detectives carefully navigate the eclectic, often eccentric personalities of the town, as well as the disdain of law enforcement colleagues further afield, to uncover the unsettling truth.

'Described as a 'sea-change mystery' Through a Camel's Eye deftly juxtaposes the idyllic surroundings of a coastal Victorian town with the gravity of murder. ' (Publication summary)

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  • Epigraph:

    'Full five fathom thy father lies: Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls of wisdom that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change into something strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: Hark! Now I hear them - ding, dong, bell.' - Ariel's Song from The Tempest by William Shakespeare

  • Dedication:  'For my mother Ivy Johnson (1920-2014)'

    'With grateful thanks to those who have helped in the writing of this novel, my family and the team and For Pity Sake Publishing.'

  • Author's note: 'While this novel is set in real places, all the characters are entirely fictitious. Any resemblance to any person, whether living or dead, is entirely coincidental."

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Manly Vale, Manly - Allambie - Curl Curl area, Sydney Northeastern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: For Pity Sake Publishing , 2015 .
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      Extent: 224p.
      Note/s:
      • Published November 2015
      ISBN: 9780994448538

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A Camel, A Corpse and the Coast Dorothy Johnston , 2016 single work essay
— Appears in: Good Reading , June 2016; (p. 30-32)
'Australian author of literary and crime fiction Dorothy Johnston writes about the real-life kidnapping of a camel, coming home to Victoria’s Bellarine Peninsula, and how she came to write Through a Camel’s Eye.'
[Review] Through a Camel's Eye Katharine England , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 11 June 2016; (p. 36)

— Review of Through a Camel's Eye Dorothy Johnston , 2015 single work novel
Through a Camel's Eye Review : Skulduggery and Camel Stealing in Seaside Victoria Kerryn Goldsworthy , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Brisbane Times , 17 June 2016;

— Review of Through a Camel's Eye Dorothy Johnston , 2015 single work novel
'This police procedural is the only novel about a stolen camel that I have ever read. But the camel plot is intertwined with a darker mystery: the story of a woman whose battered body is washed loose in heavy rains from its shallow riverbank grave. The characters of the two police officers working as a team are convincing enough and the plot more or less works, but the writing is curiously flat, and many of the minor characters are stereotypes. ...'
Through a Camel's Eye Review : Skulduggery and Camel Stealing in Seaside Victoria Kerryn Goldsworthy , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Brisbane Times , 17 June 2016;

— Review of Through a Camel's Eye Dorothy Johnston , 2015 single work novel
'This police procedural is the only novel about a stolen camel that I have ever read. But the camel plot is intertwined with a darker mystery: the story of a woman whose battered body is washed loose in heavy rains from its shallow riverbank grave. The characters of the two police officers working as a team are convincing enough and the plot more or less works, but the writing is curiously flat, and many of the minor characters are stereotypes. ...'
[Review] Through a Camel's Eye Katharine England , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 11 June 2016; (p. 36)

— Review of Through a Camel's Eye Dorothy Johnston , 2015 single work novel
A Camel, A Corpse and the Coast Dorothy Johnston , 2016 single work essay
— Appears in: Good Reading , June 2016; (p. 30-32)
'Australian author of literary and crime fiction Dorothy Johnston writes about the real-life kidnapping of a camel, coming home to Victoria’s Bellarine Peninsula, and how she came to write Through a Camel’s Eye.'
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