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1 y separately published work icon The Burning [and] Death at the Patch Jackie Tritt , M. B. Patmore , The Junction : Australian Pocket Press , 1998 Z1129229 1998 selected work novel crime detective
1 1 y separately published work icon Deadly Harvest [and] Fatal Fortnight Nettie Cox , J. D. Hainsworth , The Junction : Australian Pocket Press , 1997 Z294421 1997 selected work novel crime
1 1 y separately published work icon The Listener Brian Regan , The Junction : Australian Pocket Press , 1996 Z196688 1996 single work novel crime
1 1 y separately published work icon Death by Desire Annie James , The Junction : Australian Pocket Press , 1996 Z196593 1996 single work novel crime
1 1 y separately published work icon Murder Seventies Style : The Final Dismissal Anne Hawking , The Junction : Australian Pocket Press , 1996 Z170013 1996 single work novel crime

'It is November 12, 1975. Australia has been thrown into political upheaval with the sacking the previous day of Gough Whitlam as Prime Minister. At Balmain Boys High School, teacher Susan Ross is plunged into her own state of turmoil following the murder of the school's science master - gassed in his own laboratory. Who killed him? The problem is there is no shortage of people who might have wanted him dead: the school's bad boy, the headmaster, the impeccable school captain, the rather vague English master - and that's just the beginning.'

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1 y separately published work icon The Death of Emma O'Hare Damian Morgan , The Junction : Australian Pocket Press , 1996 Z128325 1996 single work novel crime
1 1 y separately published work icon The Corpse in the Gold Bikini Kevin Baker , The Junction : Australian Pocket Press , 1996 Z128227 1996 single work novel crime detective

'Whenever I see a girl with a gold bikini, I think of Princess Leia. Here on the Gold Coast, gold bikinis are common, so I think of Princess Leia a lot.

'Eighteen-year-old Olivia Grace has deferred her law degree and ducked out of her friends' gap-year tour of Asia. Instead, she's fulfilling her childhood dream of becoming a private investigator, following in the footsteps of Nancy Drew and Veronica Mars - who taught her everything she knows, including a solid line in quick-quipping repartee, the importance of a handbag full of disguises, and a way of mixing business with inconvenient chemistry.

'Playing Watson to the Sherlock of her childhood friend, detective agency owner Rosco (once the Han Solo to her Princess Leia), Olivia pursues a routine cheating husband case from the glitzy Gold Coast to Insta-perfect Byron Bay, where she faces yoga wars, dirty whale activism, and a guru who's kind of a creep.

'Olivia Grace is a teenage screwball heroine for the #metoo era, and The Girl with the Gold Bikini is a body-positive detective romp, rich with pop-culture pleasures.'  (Publication summary)
1 y separately published work icon The Kokoda Club Geoff Stewart , The Junction : Australian Pocket Press , 1996 Z1129222 1996 single work novel crime "Fraud Squad detective Patrick Aitken's efforts to stop a bungled robbery cost him his career, so he leaves Sydney for a reclusive life in the Blue Mountains. Lured back to the bright lights for a night out with his ex-partner, he stumbles over a carpark bashing that changes his life, and draws him back into the seamy lifestyle he's escaped, along a trail of vice and murder leading to a shocking secret buried in Australia's obscure war history." (Back cover)
1 y separately published work icon Pocket Crime Series Australian Pocket Press (publisher), 1995 1995-1998 Z1129215 1995 series - publisher novel crime The Pocket Crime Series is a quarterly publication catering exclusively to the murder mystery reader. The Pocket Crime Series aims to publish monthly mysteries from both new and established authors. The plot in book in this series must resolve around a murder and its resolution.
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