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Issue Details: First known date: 1964... 1964 Mystery Aboard the Murrabit
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Why is Max the acrobat's uncle trying to kill him? Pete and his sister Vicki, who have holiday jobs on a Murray River paddle steamer, try to protect Max and solve the mystery.

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  • Epigraph: The days of the paddle wheel traders have gone, And the thresh of the paddles is still, But the colourful dream of their time lingers on, And for riverside folk always will. - 'Dick Turpin'.
  • Dedication: For Rod, Trina and Quentin

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Untitled 1965 single work review
— Appears in: New Books for Boys and Girls , July no. 21 1965; (p. 14)
— Review of Mystery Aboard the Murrabit Nancy Parker , 1964 single work children's fiction
Untitled 1965 single work review
— Appears in: New Books for Boys and Girls , July no. 21 1965; (p. 14)
— Review of Mystery Aboard the Murrabit Nancy Parker , 1964 single work children's fiction
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