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1 5 y separately published work icon A Second Hand David Owen , Port Melbourne : Mandarin , 1995 Z42951 1995 single work novel crime

'Detective Inspector Franz Heineken, aka Pufferfish, is a cop who loves to be loathed.

'Roaming the backwaters of his bedevilled island home, Pufferfish is led to investigate a mysterious and clueless attack on a second-hand dealer. But while Ira Cone's injuries are not serious, her volunteer work for a soup kitchen attracts the attention of the good detective's ever-probing eye.' (Publication summary)

1 y separately published work icon Why Neville Shot Gus David Owen , Hobart : Fuller's Bookshop , 2019 20589569 2019 single work novella crime

'An intriguing story of murder in Hobart with a foreword about how to write crime fiction.'

Source : publisher's blurb

1 6 y separately published work icon Pig's Head David Owen , Port Melbourne : Mandarin , 1994 Z93483 1994 single work novel crime

'There are good cops, there are bad cops...and there is Pufferfish, aka Detective Inspector Franz Heineken.

Pufferfish (Contusus brevicaudus): Body moderately short, pectorals rounded. Slow swimmer. Scavenger in the mud, at home in the murky shallows, where it roots out and feeds on detritusbody able to bloat and even explode under extreme provocation.

A severed head rolls out of the runnish in a crowded Tasmanian caravan park, and the hunt is on for the killers ... and for their victim, a man no-one seems to miss, a man no-one wants to know.' (Publication summary)

1 y separately published work icon Miss Lily : A Portrait of the Artist Curzona Allport Marian Jameson , Hobart : Fuller's Bookshop , 2018 17408718 2018 single work biography

'Lily Allport, chistened Curzona Francis Louise, was a strong woman who lived between two worlds – the old and the new. Born in the nineteenth century to a prominent Hobart family of lawyers, Lily refused to take the expected path of marriage and children. Described by her brother-in-law as ‘impudent and headstrong’, Lily was determined to become a professional artist.

'Her drive to follow her own path took her to London and success in the Royal Academy of Arts, and a satisfying life at the centre of the nineteenth-century artistic world. And then in the 1930s, at an age when she might be expected to ease up, she returned to Hobart and set up a printmaking studio, creating a late flowering of works in an entirely different medium.

'This book follows her journey from a society literally at the end of the world to its very centre – London, Paris and Rome. It is lavishly illustrated with more than 200 examples of her work: drawings, watercolours, oils and prints.

'While the heroine of this book is Lily, it also offers portraits in miniature of other members of her interesting family, whose impact of Tasmanian life continues today with the Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts. It draws on existing and new research to create a picture of the artist and to give her a well-deserved place in the record of Tasmania and Australian artistic endeavour.

'Above all, it is a tribute to Lily’s considerable talent and determination to live her own life.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 y separately published work icon Big Red Rock David Owen , Hobart : Fuller's Bookshop , 2017 12813240 2017 single work novel mystery

'Say it's not so, but detective squads still put their faith in the whiteboard and texta, brainstorming difficult cases. Like this:

1. Hildvi dies. Accident, suicide, murder?
2. Wayne, distraught.
3. Josh, Ange, impeccable alibis.
4. Mrs Ellicott swears she heard a scream.
5. Kurt Cowboy - mysterious, dangerous, no known ID.
6. Operation Centipede - Brisbane, "colourful identity" Marko Kaljurand.
7. Fishscale, Charlie, Blow, Wogan = best quality cocaine.
8. Uluru... Sorry, wrong whiteboard? No. Correct whiteboard. Add Alice Springs.

'Seeking answers to myriad tricky questions, Detective Inspector Franz Heineken, aka Pufferfish, aka long-time Aussie blow-in, knows where he must go - to the two Australian places he never wanted to investigate, let alone re-visit: the fabled Red Centre, and his ethically questionable past.' (Publication Summary)

1 3 y separately published work icon 13-Point Plan For a Perfect Murder David Owen , Tasmania : Fuller's Bookshop , 2016 9823898 2016 single work novel crime

'Tasmania's rise and rise as a tourist destination makes the island an ideal location for the cashed-up international polo set, jetting in from Europe, Buenos Aires, Shanghai and LA for their late summer carnival and relaxathon in the world's latest clean-green hotspot. They play fiercely and party hard at the swish Polo Palace, built near beautiful beaches through the largesse of an island-loving, polo-mad billionaire Bahraini businessman.

'So when this idyll is gruesomely interrupted by the murder of Sebastian Wicken, a dashing and wealthy Englishman famous for wielding his stick and ball, Pufferfish, aka seasoned Detective Inspector Franz Heineken of the Tasmanian Police Force, is called to investigate. And investigate he does.

'For starters, what possible relationship could there be between this visiting bludgeoned aristocrat and Tassie's worst-of-the-worst career villain, psychopathic Morgan Murger? What ghastly behaviour unites them in blood?

'Pufferfish and his offsiders Rafe and Faye work double time to try and fathom who did what to whom, and why - while keeping an antsy tourist industry at bay - but then the strange intrusion of a quavery voice from rural England, being Sebastian's aunt Eugenie, deepens the mystery.

'Meanwhile Faye, against advice, has got herself personally involved in the theft of a stamp album from a workingclass primary school. Silly kids and all that. Except it's no ordinary stamp album, sucking in and mightily distracting Pufferfish from the politically-charged polo mess.

'As if all of this is not enough, an old Pufferfish flame, diminutive beauty Milly de Havilland cruises back into town from his distant past, when she'd given great comfort to the then young Dutch throwaway cop Franz Heineken, an emotional wreck washed up on remote Tasmania's shore. And, as it happens, Pufferfish's close de facto Hedda is currently overseas ...' (Publication summary)

1 y separately published work icon Romeo's Gun David Owen , Hobart : Fuller's Bookshop , 2016 10675688 2016 single work novel crime

'Across the wilds of Tasmania, from the majestic Central Plateau to remote Arthur River and using his intimate knowledge of the the island's people, Pufferfish aims himself at the increasingly dangerous mystery of Romeo's Gun. And at the evil predators stalking his patch.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 y separately published work icon Marion Marion Oak Sticht Brett Martin , Hobart : Fuller's Bookshop , 2016 10201279 2016 single work novel historical fiction

'A novel about Marion Oak Sticht and her life on the west coast of Tasmania after her husband Robert Sticht had established himself as a genius metallurgist and then lost his fortune on a bad investment.

'They moved from America to the west coast of Tasmania and built a wonderful house called Penghana and Robert amassed a world class collection of books and fine art. They were unable to return to the US when things went bad and after Robert died Marion moved to the ghost town of Balfour.

'The trajectory of Marion's life is tragic.' (Publication summary)

1 y separately published work icon Musquito Brutality and Exile : Aboriginal Resistance in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land Michael Powell , Hobart : Fuller's Bookshop , 2016 10077296 2016 single work biography

Biography of the Aboriginal resistance leader Musquito in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land and his exile from NSW.

(Source: Angus & Robertson Bookworld website)

1 y separately published work icon Studies in the History of Aboriginal Tasmania Hobart : Fuller's Bookshop , 2008 10077383 2008 series - publisher criticism
1 y separately published work icon The Arrival Tony Ryan , Hobart City : Fuller's Bookshop , 1972 Z1390852 1972 selected work poetry
1 y separately published work icon Andrew Bent and the Freedom of the Press in Van Diemen's Land Joan Woodberry , Hobart : Fuller's Bookshop , 1972 Z93060 1972 single work biography
1 1 y separately published work icon The Larger View Norma Bloom , Hobart : Fuller's Bookshop , 1972 Z543039 1972 selected work poetry
1 y separately published work icon Five Tasmanians : A Collection of New Writings by Five Tasmanian Writers Karen Knight (editor), Don Hutton (editor), John Heathcote (editor), Tony Ryan (editor), Rolf Shankley (editor), Hobart : Fuller's Bookshop , 1971 Z1652213 1971 anthology poetry short story
1 y separately published work icon Adventures at Powranna : More Tasmanian Tales Nairda Lyne , Hobart : Fuller's Bookshop , 1969 Z836856 1969 selected work children's fiction children's
1 y separately published work icon Ten Short Stories: Selected by the Tasmanian Fellowship of Australian Writers Fellowship of Australian Writers, Tasmania , Hobart : Fuller's Bookshop , 1967 Z1378369 1967 anthology short story
1 y separately published work icon Ten Short Stories: Selected by the Tasmanian Fellowship of Australian Writers Fellowship of Australian Writers, Tasmania , Hobart : Fuller's Bookshop , 1966 Z1378367 1966 anthology short story
1 y separately published work icon Tasmanian Tales Nairda Lyne , Hobart : Fuller's Bookshop , 1965 Z980321 1965 selected work children's fiction children's
1 y separately published work icon Ten Short Stories : Selected by the Tasmanian Fellowship of Australian Writers Fellowship of Australian Writers, Tasmania , Hobart : Fuller's Bookshop , 1965 Z873669 1965 anthology short story
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