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Issue Details: First known date: 1923... 1923 The Red Paste Murders
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'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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  • 'Use of an Asiatic drug makes a nonentity a murderous psychopath, then he reforms and becomes a religious fanatic which it must be conceded is an improvement'. (Source: 'Notes on Australian Science Fiction' 70, 1983).

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Serialised by: The Advertiser 1931 newspaper (2713 issues)
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Serialised in the Adelaide Advertiser between 12 September 1938 and 22 October 1938.
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More Miscellaneous Graham Stone , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Notes on Australian Science Fiction 2001; (p. 163-168)
— Review of Jacob Shumate, or The People's March: A Voice from the Ranks Henry Wrixon , 1903 single work novel ; The Girdle of Kaf Cora Minnett , 1912 single work novel ; The Living Mummy Ambrose Pratt , 1910 single work novel ; The Tragedy Behind the Curtain and Other Stories Arthur A. D. Bayldon , 1910 selected work short story ; Holiday Dulcie Deamer , 1940 single work novel ; The Devil's Saint Dulcie Deamer , 1924 single work novel ; In the Beginning : Six Studies of the Stone Age and Other Stories Including A Daughter of the Incas A Short Novel of the Conquest of Peru Dulcie Deamer , 1909 selected work short story novel ; The Rescue of Victoria, the Beautiful Nihilist T. P. Deegan , 1909 single work novel ; 'So Long' : An Original Book for Everyone to Read. Instructive, Entertaining and Amusing. A Glimpse of the Past, Present and Inferentially of the Future Charles C. Cowdroy , 1908 selected work short story prose ; The Super-Barbarians Carlton Dawe , 1915 single work novel ; A Journalist and Two Bears James Edmond , 1913 selected work short story essay poetry ; The Flying Argosy Arthur J. Rees , 1934 single work novel ; The Threshold of Fear : A Sober Fantasy Arthur J. Rees , 1925 single work novel ; The Moon Rock Arthur J. Rees , 1922 single work novel ; The Case Books of X37 A. J. Dawson , 1930 selected work short story ; The Dawn of a New Civilization William Hardy Wilson , 1929 single work novel ; Burning Air John Armour , 1928 single work novel ; Tzane : A Novel J. L. Ranken , 1926 single work novel ; The Fall of a Dictator Arthur Gask , 1938 single work novel ; The Red Paste Murders Arthur Gask , 1923 single work novel ; Sariska Benori Barbara Dale Smith , 1922 single work novel ; Mutiny in the Air James M. Downie , 1943 single work children's fiction ; Death's Mannikins : Being a Sober Account of Certain Diabolical Happenings Not Untinged with the Odour of Brimstone Which Befell a Respectable Family Living at Exmoor in This Present Year Max Afford , 1937 single work novel ; Whirlaway : A Story of the Ages H. C. F. Morant , 1937 single work children's fiction
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