Patricia Carlon Patricia Carlon i(A24332 works by) (a.k.a. Patricia Bernardette Carlon)
Also writes as: Barbara Christie ; Patricia Bernard ; Patricia Carstairs ; Bernice Patrick ; Phillipa Carstairs ; Patricia Carlow ; Elaine Wells ; Pam Bernard
Born: Established: 9 Jan 1927 Wagga Wagga, Wagga Wagga area, Riverina - Murray area, New South Wales, ; Died: Ceased: 29 Jul 2002 Sydney, New South Wales,
Gender: Female
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1 y separately published work icon Death by Demonstration Patricia Carlon , London : Hodder and Stoughton , 1970 Z194816 1970 single work novel crime

'An anti-Vietnam War demonstration by angry Australian college students in the sixties results in the death of a young woman marcher. No one seems to know how she came to be struck down. But as the police seek to charge one of the leaders of the protest, Jefferson Shields, a private detective, eliminates the most likely suspects and, a la G. K. Chesterton, identifies the only possible culprit.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (Soho Press).

4 2 y separately published work icon The Souvenir Patricia Carlon , London : Hodder and Stoughton , 1970 Z77945 1970 single work novel crime mystery

'An early-morning murder in the park of a quiet country town. Two hitch-hiking girls, one of them guilty - one of them a liar.

'Four years on, Marion still has to know who killed her brother. The police, the press and ordinary people have lost interest in the case. She needs to call on Jefferson Shields - she's been told that he solves puzzles.

'You'll be baffled to the end of The Souvenir.' (Publisher's blurb [Wakefield Press ed.])

1 y separately published work icon Jefferson Shields Patricia Carlon , London : Hodder and Stoughton , 1970 28172471 1970 series - author novel
5 5 y separately published work icon The Whispering Wall Patricia Carlon , London : Hodder and Stoughton , 1969 Z116138 1969 single work novel crime Sarah is a stroke victim who has lost the power of speech and movement. Lying in her bed she overhears through the walls of a plan by her tenants to murder someone. Sarah must warn the other members of the household before it is too late. (Source: Trove)
1 y separately published work icon Forty Pieces of Alloy Patricia Carlon , London : Hodder and Stoughton , 1968 Z194917 1968 single work novel crime
3 y separately published work icon See Nothing, Say Nothing Patricia Carlon , London : Hodder and Stoughton , 1967 Z195130 1967 single work novel crime

'A ten minute joyride turns into manslaughter as two teenagers hit-and-run. This then meticulously traces the aftermath as Julius and Barry try to find the old woman whose dog they also killed, who may or may not have seen them. And finally it leads to murder as Barry becomes obsessed with the need to destroy all evidence. As taut as the youngsters' nerves and an indictment of the too typical community whose see-nothing-say-nothing attitude precipitates further disasters.'

Source: Kirkus Reviews.

3 y separately published work icon Hush, It's a Game Patricia Carlon , 1967 single work novel crime A small girl is locked inside the kitchen of an apartment in which her babysitter has been murdered. It is Christmas week, her father is away on business and no-one will miss her until he returns.
4 y separately published work icon Betray Me -- If You Dare Patricia Carlon , London : Hodder and Stoughton , 1966 Z194709 1966 single work novel crime
5 y separately published work icon The Running Woman Patricia Carlon , London : Hodder and Stoughton , 1966 Z185209 1966 single work novel crime mystery A woman is observed running from Larapinta Creek Bridge; then the body of a very unpleasant fourteen-year old girl is found, drowned. Did the girl fall into the water by accident? Or was she pushed? Attractive, blonde Gabriel Endicott is an apparently wealthy young widow, a newcomer to Australia's Larapinta district where everyone else seems to know the neighbors very well indeed. The next day she receives a newspaper clipping in the mail about the drowning. The clipping ends with the enigmatic statement that the police are anxious to interview a woman seen running from the bridge over the creek, "a young, fair-haired woman wearing a white dress.". Gabriel doesn't know who would have sent her this news. Or the subsequent envelopes containing information about the death of young Carol Zamia. But she was wearing a cream-colored suit and had walked near the bridge that night. Now the police, the town, everyone, seems to suspect her of complicity in the girl's death. Either she pushed Carol or, aware of an accident, she failed to rescue her. Gabriel's efforts to free herself from suspicion only arouse more doubts as to her innocence, even in those who want most to believe in her. (Source: Trove)
6 4 y separately published work icon The Unquiet Night Patricia Carlon , London : Hodder and Stoughton , 1965 Z185728 1965 single work novel crime

'Nine-year-old Ann has been taken to a nature reserve by her Aunt Rachel. As they are leaving, she sees a strange young man staring at them. After his panic subsides, the young man, Mart, realizes that they may be able to connect him to the girl he's just strangled. Hence a game of cat and mouse begins as Mart stalks them and other inhabitants of their small Australian town. Will Ann and her aunt escape?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

5 4 y separately published work icon Crime of Silence Patricia Carlon , London : Hodder and Stoughton , 1965 Z185622 1965 single work novel crime

'A child has been kidnapped. His father, Evan Kiley, a reporter on the local newspaper in this small Australian city, telephones the home of the Wintons. They are a well-to-do family whose small daughter had been abducted - and returned - a year or so earlier. The Wintons had paid the ransom demanded without calling in the police. Because he cooperated with the criminals, Kiley accuses Winton of complicity in their crime. The men who took Robin Kiley, just a toddler, followed the same pattern as that of the earlier kidnapping of Winton's little girl. Had Winton notified the authorities, the criminals would have been caught and Robin would have been spared, Kiley says. Winton feels guilty and sorry for Kiley so he agrees to help him in his time of need. Gradually, the two men are drawn together in a plot to thwart the kidnappers and to get Robin Kiley back. But something goes wrong and a murder is committed.' (Source: Trove)

7 1 y separately published work icon The Price of an Orphan Patricia Carlon , London : Hodder and Stoughton , 1964 Z194602 1964 single work novel crime Johnnie is a nine-year old city orphan (his mother is dead, his father in prison). He has recently been placed with Stuart and Kay Heath, a childless couple who live in the Australian outback on a cattle station which Stuart manages for its wealthy owner. Hoping for a 'real' boy, they are bitterly disappointed. Johnnie is not quite the foster child they had in mind: he is 'cheeky and lazy, cowardly and stubborn.' So when he claims to have witnessed a murder they remind him of the boy who cried wolf. But then Johnnie and Kay are invited on a camping trip. A special treat to give Johnnie another chance to adjust to life in the outback? Or a cunning trap by a ruthless killer? (Source: Book jacket)
2 1 y separately published work icon Who are You, Linda Condrick? Patricia Carlon , London : Ward, Lock , 1962 Z185519 1962 single work novel crime mystery

'The contentious relatives living on the remote Forst sheep station are united against an interloper from Sydney who was hired to nurse old Mrs. Forst in her last illness. Now the heir, Gregory Forst, has become engaged to marry her and the others fear that they will be turned out of the valley. A bushfire rages, threatening all of their homesteads. And then, the charred body of a swagman is found. How did he die? Could he have been murdered? By the outsider, the nurse? Who, really, is Linda Condrick?'

Source: Publisher's blurb (late reprint).

2 y separately published work icon Danger in the Dark Patricia Carlon , London : Ward, Lock , 1962 Z185307 1962 single work novel crime

Newly blind, Ruth Latimer is sent to Havenrest, a coastal resting house for the blind, by her doctor, Gavin Ferrer. Here, she stumbles across the body of a man washed up on the seashore.

2 1 y separately published work icon Circle of Fear Patricia Carlon , London : Ward, Lock , 1961 Z185416 1961 single work novel crime
1 y separately published work icon Man from the Past Elaine Wells , Sydney : Malian Press , 1950-1959 Z1742855 1950-1959 single work novella romance
1 y separately published work icon Eager for Love! Elaine Wells , Sydney : Malian Press , 1950-1959 Z1742852 1950-1959 single work novella romance
1 y separately published work icon Marry in Haste Elaine Wells , Sydney : Malian Press , 1950-1959 Z1742849 1950-1959 single work novel romance
1 y separately published work icon Unkissed Bride Elaine Wells , Sydney : Malian Press , 1950-1959 Z1742846 1950-1959 single work novel romance
1 y separately published work icon Always Goodbye Patricia Carlow , Sydney : Malian Press , 1950-1959 Z1729673 1950-1959 single work novella romance
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