Charles De Boos Charles De Boos i(A451 works by) (a.k.a. Charles Edward Augustus De Boos; Chas. De Boos)
Also writes as: John Smith ; Redde Pepper ; Peter Pick ; Theodore Aurelius Midge
Born: Established: 24 May 1819 London,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe, ; Died: Ceased: 30 Oct 1900 Ryde, Ryde - Gladesville - Hunters Hill area, Northwest Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,
Gender: Male
Arrived in Australia: 1839
Heritage: English
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The Midge Correspondence Theodore Aurelius Midge , series - author prose humour
2 y separately published work icon My Holiday and Other Early Travels from Manly to Palm Beach 1861 Charles De Boos , Guy Jennings , 1991 single work biography travel
1 1 The Mystery of Big Oakey Charles De Boos , 1893 single work novel mystery Murder on the Turon diggings in the early 1850s. The narrator, Tom Brown alias Maynick was an English emigrant and NSW police-runner (early form of detective) in Sydney in the late 1840s, turned digger in the 1850s. He discovers a murdered miner, a 'hatter' (loner), and with a digging mate resolves to investigate the crime. The victim, 'The Count', spoke very little but was known to have some gold - but disappeared during the visit of an English cousin, Reginald Dollington. The inquest when his body is discovered in a mine some months later misses the murder verdict but the narrator and friend discover it while burying the body ... He tells the Commissioner of the victim's unhappy life in England when he discovers a letter from the Count's wife, Aimee. Tom goes to Sydney to track her down in The Rocks - a rough area. Tom investigates Reginald Dollington's plans to prove the Count's death and claim the inheritance. Tom tracks down the murder weapon to Dollington, and a pair of boots. When Aimee sees Dollington to identify him she is terrorised - and eventually Tom realises it is the Count who has taken Dollington' place. Includes an excursion into Norman times and the gaining of an estate by Dollington, William the Conqueror's Cook! Also the progression to nobility of the name through English history and their financial fall. Detective work uncovers the rest ... Suicide and a confession complete the tale, along with a marriage in England. (PB)
1 2 y separately published work icon Me and My Horse : Showing How I Got Him, How I Kept Him, and All About Him : Being Sketches of Life on the Peel River Diggings Charles De Boos , 1880 Canberra : Mulini Press , 2004 Z1172360 1880 single work novella humour
1 1 y separately published work icon The Congewoi Correspondence : Being the Letters of Mr John Smith Charles De Boos , Sydney : E. R. Cole , 1874 Z812575 1874 single work novel
3 2 y separately published work icon Mark Brown's Wife : A Tale of the Gold-Fields Charles De Boos , 1871 Z1239136 1871 single work novel Tale opens on the Mount Jones Rocky River gold fields in 1866 when Tom Drewe, one of a party of miners reminisces of 1854 and Melbourne's Canvas Town. His assistance to a newly arrived emigrant couple, burying their baby and being rudely sneered at by an ex-convict earns their friendship and they follow him to Bendigo. The convict ring-leader, Ginger, decides to week revenge on Mark (the emigrant) and plots his murder - his first attempt at Canvas Town failing. Mark finds employment for his wife Cicely in Melbourne and then goes to the Bendigo diggings and then to the Ovens. There he helps try and track down the murderer of an old digger, in which Ginger is involved. Amusing tales of successful diggers' mistrust of each other and the ruses used to steal gold, such as the Trojan Pony. (PB)
1 The Collective Wisdom of New South Wales [Third Series] Charles De Boos , 1869 series - author column satire
1 The Collective Wisdom of New South Wales : No. XV Charles De Boos , 1869 single work prose satire
— Appears in: The Sydney Mail , 27 March vol. 10 no. 456 1869; (p. 10)
1 The Collective Wisdom of New South Wales : No. XIV Charles De Boos , 1869 single work prose satire
— Appears in: The Sydney Mail , 20 March vol. 10 no. 455 1869; (p. 7)
1 The Collective Wisdom of New South Wales : No. XIII Charles De Boos , 1869 single work prose satire
— Appears in: The Sydney Mail , 13 March vol. 10 no. 454 1869; (p. 6)
1 The Collective Wisdom of New South Wales : No. XII Charles De Boos , 1869 single work prose satire
— Appears in: The Sydney Mail , 6 March vol. 10 no. 453 1869; (p. 6)
1 The Collective Wisdom of New South Wales : No. XI Charles De Boos , 1869 single work prose satire
— Appears in: The Sydney Mail , 27 February vol. 10 no. 452 1869; (p. 10)
1 The Collective Wisdom of New South Wales : No. X Charles De Boos , 1869 single work prose satire
— Appears in: The Sydney Mail , 20 February vol. 10 no. 451 1869; (p. 7)
1 The Collective Wisdom of New South Wales : No. IX Charles De Boos , 1869 single work prose satire
— Appears in: The Sydney Mail , 13 February vol. 10 no. 450 1869; (p. 6)
1 The Collective Wisdom of New South Wales : No. VIII Charles De Boos , 1869 single work prose satire
— Appears in: The Sydney Mail , 6 February vol. 10 no. 449 1869; (p. 6)
1 The Collective Wisdom of New South Wales : No. VII Charles De Boos , 1869 single work prose satire
— Appears in: The Sydney Mail , 30 January vol. 10 no. 448 1869; (p. 10)
1 The Collective Wisdom of New South Wales : No. VI Charles De Boos , 1869 single work prose satire
— Appears in: The Sydney Mail , 23 January vol. 10 no. 447 1869; (p. 6)
1 The Collective Wisdom of New South Wales : No. V Charles De Boos , 1869 single work prose satire
— Appears in: The Sydney Mail , 16 January vol. 10 no. 446 1869; (p. 6)
1 The Collective Wisdom of New South Wales : No. IV Charles De Boos , 1869 single work prose satire
— Appears in: The Sydney Mail , 2 January vol. 10 no. 444 1869; (p. 11)
1 Mr. John Smith's Visit to Sydney : He Discourses upon the South Head Rush John Smith , 1868 single work prose satire
— Appears in: The Sydney Mail , 22 February vol. 9 no. 399 1868;
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