Force and Fraud
A Tale of the Bush
Published on 28. August 2015
180 pages
978-0-9924925-8-8 (ISBN)
Description
Outback Australia in the mid-1800s.
When rich, domineering squatter Angus McAlpin is murdered, the obvious suspect is the penniless artist, Herbert Lindsey - who wants to marry his daughter, Flora.
McAlpin may have proclaimed that Flora would marry Herbert 'only over his dead body' - and Herbert's bloodstained knife and handkerchief were found near the murder scene - but the artist denies any wrongdoing.
So begins a compelling murder mystery and trial, as the heiress seeks to prove her lover's innocence, and a country town takes sides.
Force may have killed Angus McAlpin, but fraud follows murder in a cunning plan to see Herbert Lindsey hanged - by any means necessary.
For someone else is determined to marry Flora, to obtain her property and her person; and he will stop at nothing.
Praise for Force and Fraud: 'Stunning historical mystery. Court scene worthy of Perry Mason' - Kerry Greenwood
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Content
- Intro
- Introduction
- FORCE AND FRAUD
- Chapter I The Artist
- Chapter II The Artist's Friend
- Chapter III The Artist's Love
- Chapter IV The Inquest
- Chapter V The Last Home
- Chapter VI The Lovers of Sensation
- Chapter VII Harry's Misgivings
- Chapter VIII Sailing of the Robespierre
- Chapter IX Board and Lodging in a Christian Family
- Chapter X Transition
- Chapter XI The Little Cloud
- Chapter XII Reason and Instinct
- Chapter XIII A Storm
- Chapter XIV After the Storm
- Chapter XV Of Age
- Chapter XVI A Bazaar
- Chapter XVII Mrs Robert's Rubbish Drawer
- Chapter XVIII A Myth
- Chapter XIX Pro and Con
- Chapter XX The Loving and the Loved
- Chapter XXI The Gaol
- Chapter XXII The Courthouse
- Chapter XXIII Many Passions
- Chapter XXIV Desolation Island
- Chapter XXV The Return of the Robespierre
- Chapter XXVI Ashore
- Chapter XXVII Day Dreams
- Chapter XVIII Awaking
- Chapter XXIX A Wedding
- Chapter XXX
- Chapter XXXI To be Married Tomorrow
- Chapter XXXII Two Crimes
- Chapter XXXIII Strife
- Chapter XXXIV Conjectures
- Chapter XXXV Conclusion
- The Highlander's Revenge
- Notes For Introduction
