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Issue Details: First known date: 1944... 1944 Rumpelmayer's Reverser and Other Stories
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These stories centre around the use of the Reacher-Outer-Bringer-Backer - "a device that enables one to hear conversations from bygone eras". The main character, Eddie Rumpelmayer, uses it for various absurd money-making schemes which inevitably go wrong.

Blair, Richard. 'Blown to Blazes & Other Works of J.B. Blair and Jim Blair's years at The Bulletin (1934-1961)'

Notes

  • Richard Blair reports finding the manuscript for this work in the Mitchell Library. No copy of the published work has been located. Most of the stories in the draft found also appear in Pardon My Intrusion.

Contents

* Contents derived from the Sydney, New South Wales,:Frank Johnson , 1944 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Rumpelmayer's Reverser, J. B. Blair , single work short story humour
Rumpelmayer and his associate find a way to re-record gramophone records played backwards and palm them off as works by a Russian composer.
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y separately published work icon Pardon My Intrusion J. B. Blair , Sydney : Frank Johnson , 1946 Z811716 1946 single work novel
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Works about this Work

'Blown to Blazes & Other Works of J.B. Blair' and Jim Blair's years at The Bulletin (1934-1961) Richard Blair , 2008 single work biography
— Appears in: Biblionews and Australian Notes & Queries , December no. 360 2008; (p. 148-163)
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