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A station owner marries a vulgar local beauty only to have his first wife, supposed dead, appear. Hard attitudes to the local flirt from all, as the first wife is a 'true lady'. (PB)
A ghost in Easyville's Moreton Hall can not rest until a murder committed in life is revealed. "L'Envoi", pp. 83-84, ends the Chronicles of Easyville with the end of the manuscript. (PB)
A wild young student at Aberdeen University and then at medical school enlists in the Indian army in Burma where he meets his death. Probably factually based. (PB)
Tragic romance of the frail granddaughter of a Melbourne bookseller, inveigled into a secret marriage by a fortune-hunter who deserts her when he finds her penniless. At last about to marry again her first husband returns to claim her newly-declared fortune ... Evocative. (PB)
Retelling of the plot of Gerald Griffin's The Collegians which was dramatised as 'Coleen Bawn' - an Irish (Limerick) tragedy of romance, greed and murder includes the literary background as an introduction to the facts. (PB)