Short Fiction Favenc, Ernest: My Only Murder and other tales (1899); v1, 27 May 2023

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All the stories in this small volume were first published in The Bulletin, an Australian weekly news, politics and literary magazine. It does not ever seem to have been reprinted. The author, Ernest Favenc, was English born, but came to Australia in the late 1860s as a teenager; after a year working in a city office, he found more challenging work on a station in North Queensland. He later led explroing parties into unexplored regions of Queensland and Western Australia, later retiring to the city and working as a journalist and story writer. He wrote some 300 short stories. Three collections were published in his lifetime, using about 50 or so of them. This is a very rare book indeed.

Contents
1. A Tale of Vanderlin Island
2. Blood for Blood
3. The Other Mrs. Brewer
4. My Only Murder
5. The Burial of Owen
6. The Red Lagoon
7. Tommy's Ghost
8. The New Super of Oakley Downs
9. An Unquiet Spirit
10. Bill Somers
11. Jerry Boake's Confession
12. What Puzzled Balladune
13. The Story of a Long Watch
14. The Ghost's Victory
15. The Sea Gave Up Its Dead
16. Mrs Stapleton No. 2
17. The Boundary Rider's Story
18. The Eight-Mile Tragedy
19. The Belle of Sagamodu
20. Not Retributive Justice
21. A Victim to Gratitude
22. A North Queensland Temperance Story
23. A Gum-tree in the Desert

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