The Mayne Inheritance

Author : Rosamond Siemon
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN 13 : 9780702234224
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mayne Inheritance written by Rosamond Siemon and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opening with a macabre mid-nineteenth century murder, The Mayne Inheritance unfolds like a gothic thriller. Was it the murder victim's money that founded patriarch Patrick Mayne's Queen Street business empire? And were the whispered accusations of murder and genetic madness true? For 150 years scandal and mystery have surrounded the Maynes, a wealthy family who donated the magnificent site on which the University of Queensland now stands.

Author : Rosamond Siemon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780702230592
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mayne Inheritance written by Rosamond Siemon and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scandal and mystery have always surrounded the Maynes, a wealthy Brisbane family. Opening with a macabre mid-nineteenth-century murder, this history unfolds like a gothic tale. The family patriarch Patrick Mayne, a migrant from famine stricken Ireland, came to the Moreton Bay Settlement to find a better life. Subsequently a Queen Street butcher, successful property speculator and town councillor, he died in disgrace for a murder he was never actually accused of committing. But was it the murder victim's stolen money which founded Patrick's business empire?

Author : Errol O'Neill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780908156818
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mayne Inheritance written by Errol O'Neill and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This play is based on the story by the same name by Rosamond Siemon and published by University of Queensland Press in 1997. It was described as a 'real-life thriller' and 'a gothic tale of murder, madness and scandal across the generations'.

Author : Rosamond Siemon
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mayne Inheritance written by Rosamond Siemon and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mayne Reid
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Maroon written by Mayne Reid and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Hatherell
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780702235436
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Third Metropolis written by William Hatherell and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a focus on the literary and visual arts - in particular poetry, the novel, and painting - The Third Metropolis considers the relationship of these works of art to the actual history of the city - political, economic and demographic.

Author : David Malouf
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN 13 : 0702258032
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Johnno written by David Malouf and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2015-11-23 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Despite Johnno's assertion that Brisbane was absolutely the ugliest place in the world, I had the feeling as I walked across deserted intersections, past empty parks with their tropical trees all spiked and sharp-edged in the early sunlight, that it might even be beautiful ... " Johnno is a typical Australian who refuses to be typical. His disorderly presence can disturb the staleness of his home town or destroy the tranquillity of a Greek landscape. An affectionately outrageous portrait, David Malouf's first novel recreates the war-conscious forties, the pubs and brothels of the fifties, and the years away treading water overseas.

Author : Matthew Condon
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN 13 : 0702257362
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Little Fish Are Sweet written by Matthew Condon and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2016-10-31 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little Fish Are Sweet takes the reader behind the scenes of Matthew's Condon's epic six-year, three-book journey, as he fights intimidation and legal threats while relentlessly pursuing the truth. Investigating the web of cold murder cases and pedophile scandals of the past, Condon discovers that police corruption is only one part of a much bigger and more disturbing story. What is revealed in Little Fish are Sweet will make your blood boil.

Author : Paul Bleakley
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 1628954426
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Under a Bad Sun written by Paul Bleakley and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do police officers turn against the people they are hired to protect? This question seems all the more urgent in the wake of recent global protests against police brutality. Historical criminologist Paul Bleakley addresses this by examining a series of intersecting cases of police corruption in Queensland, Australia. The protection and extortion of illegal gambling operators and sex workers were only the most visible features of a decades-long, pervasive culture of corruption in the state’s law enforcement agency. Even more dangerous—and far harder to prosecute—was the corrupt bargain between the police and the state’s conservative government, which gave law enforcement free rein to profit from criminalized vice in return for supporting the government’s repression and persecution of its political enemies, from punk music fans to gay men to left-wing protestors. While intimidating members of the political opposition, the police also protected friends and allies from criminal prosecution, even for offenses as serious as child sex abuse. When journalists and investigators revealed this corrupt bargain in 1987, the premier was forced from office and the police commissioner went to prison. But untangling politics from policing proved—and continues to prove—far more difficult in societies around the world. This true crime story goes beyond the everyday violations of law and ethics to underscore how central honest, equitable policing is to a truly democratic society.

Author : Mayne Reid
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Headless Horseman written by Mayne Reid and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: