Mary Guthrie Mary Guthrie i(A2524 works by) (a.k.a. M. Guthrie)
Also writes as: May Guthrie
Gender: Female
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1 Banfield : Beachcomber Who 'Confessed' May Guthrie , 1935 single work biography
— Appears in: The Argus , 20 April 1935; (p. 6)
1 The Fretful Midge Mary Guthrie , 1934 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australasian , 23 June vol. 136 no. 4459 1934; (p. 43)
1 Banfield of Dunk Island Mary Guthrie , 1933 single work biography
— Appears in: The Brisbane Courier , 3 June 1933; (p. 19)
1 The Clam-Shell Clutch Mary Guthrie , 1932 single work short story
— Appears in: The Queenslander , 7 April 1932; (p. 7)
1 A Shot in the Lockyer Mary Guthrie , 1932 single work short story
— Appears in: The Queenslander , 31 March 1932; (p. 4)
1 Midnight Blue Mary Guthrie , 1932 single work short story
— Appears in: The Queenslander , 17 March 1932; (p. 4)
1 All Sails Set Mary Guthrie , 1932 single work short story
— Appears in: The Queenslander , 10 March 1932; (p. 5)
1 The Camel Team i "The camel team goes grunting on,", Mary Guthrie , 1932 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 22 June vol. 53 no. 2732 1932; (p. 20)
1 The Bullocky's Gratitude Mary Guthrie , 1931 single work short story crime humour
— Appears in: The Queenslander , 11 June 1931; (p. 6) A very strong Italian cane farmer makes a friend of the local Irish constable after being knocked out but not charged while on a drunken rampage. After a language misunderstanding over someone 'left holding the baby,' he corners and beats up a suspected local smuggler to discover tins of opium on him. But the constable cannot prove it in court and the smuggler escapes.
1 The Fox's Friendship Mary Guthrie , 1931 single work short story crime
— Appears in: The Queenslander , 4 June 1931; (p. 5) A cane farmer going to meet the local steamer tricks a smuggler coming off the wharf with opium out of his loot by saying the local sergeant is on the road behind the farmer.
1 Breaking Into Mary Guthrie , 1931 single work short story crime
— Appears in: The Queenslander , 5 March 1931; (p. 4)

Reminiscences between a transferred detective and currently innocent criminal, of opium trading in North Queensland, where with the help of Chinese smugglers' champagne, a white temptress tricks an honest policeman into intoxication, while others break into the jail to steal a load of confiscated opium.
1 Conscience Doth Make -! Mary Guthrie , 1931 single work short story crime
— Appears in: The Queenslander , 26 February 1931; (p. 4) An Australian smuggler from North Queensland abandons his luggage with an opium parcel from Sydney in it, for fear of two supposed detectives on his steamer; after a confrontation at the Joss House, the luggage has to be retrieved in Townsville by a son of the Chinese opium dealers.
1 1 Bett : A Tale Of Old Breakfast Creek Mary Guthrie , 1931 single work novel romance

An independent spirited girl with a mean mother and idle father is engaged to an easy-going but illiterate Breakfast Creek fisherman when she decides to take a station job to pay for her trousseau. While she is away her mother and less good-looking sister trick the fisherman into marrying the sister, while Bett herself meets a handsome Irish migrant. Complications with an aboriginal horse-tailer and his wife lead to a forced marriage, the aboriginal wife's murder, Pat's departure to make his fortune on the Gympie goldfield, and his detainment for four years with the horse-tailer's tribe. Meanwhile Bett returns with her daughter to Brisbane, where she and the fisherman yearn for each other until he is murdered by his partner during a flood. Pat leaves the tribe, makes his fortune at Gympie, and reaches Brisbane, despite the best efforts of Bett's mother, in time to help her save the fisherman's son from the murderous partner, buy a dairy farm near her brother, and settle down for life.
1 Bora Sketches : Narragoon, the Swan Mary Guthrie , 1929 single work short story
— Appears in: The Queenslander , 28 November 1929; (p. 4)
1 Bora Sketches : The Sand Patch Mary Guthrie , 1929 single work short story
— Appears in: The Queenslander , 21 November 1929; (p. 4)
1 Bora Sketches : The Cavern Mary Guthrie , 1929 single work short story
— Appears in: The Queenslander , 14 November 1929; (p. 4)
1 Bora Sketches : Wooden Weapons Mary Guthrie , 1929 single work short story
— Appears in: The Queenslander , 7 November 1929; (p. 6)
1 Bora Sketches Mary Guthrie , 1929 series - author short story
1 Red Ochre Mary Guthrie , 1929 single work short story
— Appears in: The Queenslander , 24 October 1929; (p. 6)
1 Against Custom Mary Guthrie , 1928 single work short story
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