Estelle Thompson Estelle Thompson i(A47019 works by) (a.k.a. Estelle May Thompson)
Born: Established: 9 Oct 1930 Gympie, Gympie area, Gympie - Cooloola - Tin Can Bay area, South East Queensland, Queensland, ; Died: Ceased: 28 May 2003
Gender: Female
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1 y separately published work icon The Road to Seven-Thirty Estelle Thompson , London : Robert Hale , 2000 Z1439790 2000 single work novel crime detective
1 y separately published work icon Come Home to Danger Estelle Thompson , London : Robert Hale , 1999 Z1439775 1999 single work novel crime detective
1 y separately published work icon The Substitute Estelle Thompson , London : Robert Hale , 1991 Z1439740 1991 single work novel crime detective

'Lyn Sutton, now in her 20s, finally tracks down her dad–last seen when she was six and he was arrested for robbery and murder. Remarried, with a second family and a plumbing business in New South Wales, dad Roger is hardly eager to acknowledge Lyn, but soon this reconciliation takes second place as she responds to a note–misdelivered–desperately asking for help to avert a murder! The purported sender, Vi–living with her charming husband; wheelchair-bound nephew, Peter; and cantankerous, independent, alcoholic in-law, the aging Edith–seems, to Lyn, to be quite safe, until the brakes slip on Edith's car, nearly leveling her. Accidental? Meanwhile, a dashing young man on a motorcycle is following Lyn; Edith, perhaps despondent, ingests something fatal; and Peter's tutor casts new light on the rock-climbing slip that crippled the youngster–or did it? There's a tortuous caving expedition before Lyn understands exactly who in Vi's house is really being menaced–and how it ties in (all too neatly) with her dad's crime of years ago.'

Source: Kirkus Reviews.

1 y separately published work icon A Bridge Over Time : Living in Arnhemland with the Aborigines, 1938-1944 Estelle Thompson , Harold Thornell , Melbourne : J. M. Dent , 1986 Z1441720 1986 single work biography
3 y separately published work icon A Toast to Cousin Julian Estelle Thompson , London : Robert Hale , 1986 Z1439717 1986 single work novel crime detective

'Trisha Kent, by inheritance a silent partner in a Queensland (Australia) furniture firm owned by distant relatives-by-marriage, leaves Melbourne to meet the family she's never seen, and to decide how she should vote in a proposed takeover. Awaiting her in Queensland: a brace of brothers at the firm's helm; the firm's attractive accountant, who'll teach Trisha to ride horseback, and then some; a paraplegic craftsman, as bitter as his wife is loving; and the aggrieved wife of Cousin Julian–who had not only dipped into the till and skipped off for distant parts, but had actually tried to murder his spouse. Before the sort-out, there'll be a murder and an attempted one, arson, a gun-barrel confrontation and the work of an exceptional mare who earns her oats.'

Source: Kirkus Reviews.

1 y separately published work icon The Heir to Fairfield Estelle Thompson , London : Robert Hale , 1983 Z1439787 1983 single work novel romance
1 y separately published work icon To Catch a Rainbow Estelle Thompson , London : Robert Hale , 1979 Z1439707 1979 single work novel crime detective historical fiction

'To the mud and rains of gold-rush-town Gympie (Queensland) come charming gambling-man Robert Walden, his apprehensive but loyal wife Elizabeth, and their children Edward and Sarah. Robert's sure he'll bottom out a claim in no time, but it looks like hard times. Elizabeth, however, takes courage from the friendship of Maggie Doyle, owner of the Wild Swan hotel, whose cockney accent chimes like Bow Bells–until Maggie reveals that she is in truth Lady Margaret Doyle down on her luck. There are other pleasant neighbors: Dr. Abraham Miller, brilliant and usually drunk; Bert Peters, Miller's genial partner in their apparently paid-out claim; John Trent, kind store-owner (who will fall in love with Elizabeth and urge her to leave Robert); and Jim and Molly Burton, honorable folk farming in aborigine country. But then son Edward is killed in a fall, and raging Robert blames and threatens drunken, slow Doc Miller. So when someone soon murders Miller, Robert is naturally suspected. The family is ostracized, even Elizabeth cannot quite believe in Robert's innocence, and–after threats and hurts and a close escape with the Burtons from an aborigine massacre–the principal characters meet by a flooded river bank for a harrowing show-down, ending with the confession and death of the murderer.'

Source: Kirkus Reviews.

5 y separately published work icon Hunter in the Dark Estelle Thompson , London : Robert Hale , 1978 Z1439035 1978 single work novel crime detective

'High-school teacher Philip Blair is blind, so when a nice teenage girl befriends him at the bus stop and then gets into a man's car–and is later found murdered–Philip can't identify the man in the car. Frustrated, he insists on sleuthing, with some aid from his estranged girlfriend and his policeman buddy, and it soon seems that another teenage girl's recent death may be connected. And is yet another girl, who perhaps saw what the other two saw, slated for murder? Not only does Philip solve the crime and triumph over the killer in a Wait Until Dark-style duel; he also learns to accept his blindness and the love of his loyal lady.'

Source: Kirkus Reviews

4 y separately published work icon The Meadows of Tallon Estelle Thompson , London : Robert Hale , 1974 Z1438993 1974 single work novel crime detective
3 y separately published work icon Three Women in the House Estelle Thompson , London : Robert Hale , 1973 Z1438983 1973 single work novel crime detective
4 y separately published work icon A Mischief Past Estelle Thompson , London : Robert Hale , 1971 Z1438972 1971 single work novel crime detective
5 y separately published work icon Find a Crooked Sixpence Estelle Thompson , 1970 single work novel crime detective In Love with a Murderer? ‘To help out old friends, Dr. Jacqueline Freeman agrees to take over a small practice in the Australian town of Willowbank for one year. Outwardly, conditions are pleasant enough, but Jackie soon finds out that the townspeople have far from forgotten the unsolved murder, which happened one year before, of the beautiful wife of one Carl Shader. The young doctor is unwittingly drawn into the mystery, partly from a natural curiosity to know the truth and partly because of an immediate attraction to Carl Shrader – the man everyone believes to be the killer.’ (Publisher’s blurb)
4 y separately published work icon The Wrong Saturday Estelle Thompson , London : Hodder and Stoughton , 1968 Z1438919 1968 single work novel crime detective
1 y separately published work icon The Glass Houses Estelle Thompson , London : Hodder and Stoughton , 1967 Z1438841 1967 single work novel crime detective
5 y separately published work icon The Edge of Nowhere Estelle Thompson , London : Hodder and Stoughton , 1965 Z1438836 1965 single work novel crime detective
3 y separately published work icon The Lawyer and the Carpenter : A Novel of Murder Estelle Thompson , London : Hodder and Stoughton , 1963 Z1438828 1963 single work novel crime detective
5 y separately published work icon A Twig Is Bent Estelle Thompson , London : Abelard-Schuman , 1961 Z1438819 1961 single work novel crime detective

'Francine, and her brother Tony, about to be 5, see their uncle shoot and kill an unknown woman but Fran, unsure if Uncle Hilton has seen them, decides to guard Tony against disclosures, keeps her secret from her widow mother, and is almost destroyed by tormenting fears. Her mother's desperate efforts to get a successful crop from the orchard, the advent of a new neighbor, Hugh Ryland, whom Fran trusts, the easing of her watchfulness when Uncle Hilton displays no wariness, and the final crisis ten months later when Tony shatters her little complacency by a chance remark to their uncle, bring about a dangerous climax. It is Ryland and the detective Collings who are responsible for the children's safety, for Hilton's apprehension – and for the complete dissipation of Fran's nightmares. The orchard country bush life of Australia, the impact on young Fran of watchful waiting, and the incidents that make up the ten months period combine to make this more than a routine suspense novel and give it a special interest.'

Source: Kirkus Reviews.

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