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Lone Hand Laracy single work   novel   detective  
Issue Details: First known date: 1937... 1937 Lone Hand Laracy
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'"Lone Hand Laracy" is a thrilling tale of a chase across the world by an American detective after a London forger, who fled to the Wild West cattle country in Queensland and pitted his wits against the Yank.'

Source:

'Journalist-Author', Armidale Express and New England Advertiser, 29 November 1937, p.12.

Notes

  • Widely serialised in other newspapers during the same period: the Dalby Herald is the earliest publication traced so far.
  • Prequel to Laracy's Pot of Gold.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

First known date: 1937-1938
Serialised by: The Dalby Herald and Western Queensland Advertiser 1865 newspaper (2 issues)
Notes:
Serialised in the Dalby Herald between 12 November 1937 and 28 January 1938.
Link: Instalment one Sighted: 26/4/2016
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Laracy's Pot of Gold A. E. Yarra , 1939 single work novel adventure

'This is a romance continuing the adventures of the gentleman bushranger, "Lone- Hand Laracy," whose exploits formed one of the main themes in a previous serial in the "Daily Examiner." Laracy, having found a gold mine and fallen in love with a struggling doctor's daughter, is beset with the desire to reform and lead a respectable life, but he is handicapped by the fact that the troopers are looking for him with a reward on his head, dead or alive.'

Source:

'New Serial', Daily Examiner, 27 January 1939, p.4.
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