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Issue Details: First known date: 1928... 1928 Billy Turns Detective
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Fourteen year old Billy Marsden attends boarding school in Christchurch and misses her friend, Judy. On the last day of term, she overhears one of the station hands organising a burglary of her family's property in the country. Billy races home, collects Judy, and heads off to stop the criminals.

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    y separately published work icon Southern Seas Story Book Lillian M. Pyke (editor), Melbourne : Alexander McCubbin , 1920-1929 Z1367282 1920-1929 anthology children's fiction poetry prose children's Melbourne : E. W. Cole , 1928 pg. 17-19
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