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2 1 y separately published work icon The Red Paste Murders Arthur Gask , New York (City) : Mayfair , 1930-1939 Z1050671 1923 single work novel crime horror

'The author has fertile imagination and admirable ingenuity, together with the knack of making his story human, even though far fetched. He converts a colorless, cowardly clerk, through the eating of a mysterious oriental paste, into a ferocious and cunning criminal who changes dull, peaceable Adelaide into a city of excitement and fear. There are eight unaccountable murders within a fortnight. The murderer himself organises a force of special constables, finds an assassin, becomes acclaimed as a public benefactor, and then, in remorse, takes to evangelical preaching and the writing of records of his fearsome deeds.'

Source: 'New Books', The Mail [Adelaide], 1 December 1923, p.29.

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