Patricia Sumerling Patricia Sumerling i(A137474 works by)
Born: Established: 1945 ;
Gender: Female
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Patricia Sumerling is an Adelaide-based professional historian who believes some of the unresolved tales she comes across in her work are ripe for unravelling and for imaginative reconstruction as distinctively South Australian stories.

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y separately published work icon The Noon Lady of Towitta Kent Town : Wakefield Press , 2010 Z1745890 2010 single work novel mystery

'Bertha Schippan, beautiful but headstrong daughter of a Wendish-German family, is murdered on New Year's Day, 1902. A posse of Adelaide police arrive at the family's lonely Murray Flats farm thirty-six hours later, but by the time an Aboriginal tracker can start his work, a gale has blown all clues away. An inquest sends her elder sister Mary to trial. But why would she kill Bertha when everyone knew them as loving companions?

The Noon Lady of Towitta, a novel based on real events, entwines fact and folktale to delve into the secrets of a family haunted by its past and ruled by a devout and tyrannical father.' (Wakefield Press website)

2011 nominated Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing Best Novel
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