Cirrus@Austlit

A penniless young artist's sketch of a murder scene nearly condemns him until he is inspired to paint the murderer. Psychic overtones to a trance-like tale. (PB)

A robbery of silk from a Collins Street drapery establishment and the disappearance of the shop manager lead to a murder that Mark Sinclair must solve ... (PB)

An elephant battle at Baroda, India - a regular entertainment in the elephant stables of the Gaekwar. (PB)

Story of an acquaintance of the doctor-narrator whom he had saved from an Aboriginal attack years before. Meeting in Melbourne he hears of the youth's restoration to his French father and his inheritance; and later of his subsequent death, and the murder of his wife and son ... (PB)

On the disappearance of honesty and integrity. Includes examples from a theatrical critic in a metropolitan [Melbourne] journal; and of the emphasis on keeping up social appearances. (PB)

Set on the French colony of St Domingo in 1783, a tale of a duel by dice in a gaming house - and its terrible execution. (PB)

A picnic in a beautiful Australian setting is cut short by a boat accident, just as the beauty and happiness of the four young women is destroyed by the heartless flirtations of handsome Hugh Lacy. Moral conclusion. (PB)

A stepmother's hard battle to win over the children of her predecessor, particularly the eldest daughter. (PB)

A partner in a mercantile house brings home a handsome young Englishman to see how he likes life in Australia - but he is killed by a snake while kangaroo shooting soon after landing. His fiancee had died of consumption in England around the same time. Interesting accounts of incidents on the voyage out and the kangaroo hunt. (PB)

Story of the narrator's first year as a trooper on the Croma diggings, and the solution of a pedlar's murder by his wily and fleshly ghost ... (PB)

Account of the inconvenience and benefits of the narrator's wife's exceptional sense of smell. Set in Melbourne mainly - involving wifely jealousy, avoidance of scarlet fever, detection of a thief, and more. (PB)

Depicting the uncertainties surrounding marriage and supporting the general inadmissability of divorce. (PB)

Burglary is rife in a wealthy midlands town, and a policeman gives chase to a suspicious man with an apparent weapon under his arm - who resolves himself into an athletic schoolmaster carrying a telescope. (PB)

On the rights and wrongs of this legal remedy. (PB)