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Once popular Australian crime novelist Arthur Upfield and his Aboriginal detective hero Bony, have disappeared from the Australian literary landscape. Caroline Baum explains why.
Notes
Three items of correspondence about this article appear in Good Weekend, 10 February 2007.
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The Case of the Disappearing DetectiveIan Morrison,
2007single work correspondence — Appears in:
Good Weekend,10 February2007;(p. 10)Morrison, a former librarian of the Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne, provides an addendum to Caroline Baum's statement that the bulk of Arthur Upfield's collection was purchased by American collectors. Morrison says: 'substantial portions of it were subsequently acquired by the University of Melbourne'.
The Case of the Disappearing DetectiveIan Morrison,
2007single work correspondence — Appears in:
Good Weekend,10 February2007;(p. 10)Morrison, a former librarian of the Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne, provides an addendum to Caroline Baum's statement that the bulk of Arthur Upfield's collection was purchased by American collectors. Morrison says: 'substantial portions of it were subsequently acquired by the University of Melbourne'.