Short Fiction Dyson, Edward: The Hobbies of Austin Porteus, v1, 20 Dec 2024

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Edward Dyson 1865-1931 was born on the Ballarat gold fields and grew up in mining towns in Victoria, New South Wales and Tasmania, before his family settled in Melbourne. At the age of 19 he began writing short fiction, tales from the mines and from the factory floors. He became a very prolific freelance author of short stories under several names: Edward Dyson, Dy Edwardson, Eddyson, S.S, Ward Edson, Silas Snell, Tom Tyson, Ed Ward and others.

The stories in this volume have never been collected before. They were published as a series in the Melbourne "Punch" under the "Dy Edwardson" pseudonym, commencing 3 July 1913. They all appeared on Page 10 of each issue. Two of the stories were published without titles, so I invented them.

Austin Porteus is an eccentric antiquarian and amateur detective, supported by the dimmest police detective in the genre. This collection runs to about 40,000 words.

1: The God Shoo Shan
2: The Cough Mixture Advertisement
3: The Bronze Minerva
4: The Colville Rubies
5: The Missing William Dickery
6: A Forced Sale
7: John Leslie's Burglar
8: A Welcome Deception
9: His Unwilling Guest
10: Ephraim Day's Faithful Servant
11: The Scandal of the Bland Family
12: The Slaying of Walter Raeburn
13: Two In One
14: The Brown Coat
15: The Man in the O. P. Box
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