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Harry Tremayne, a policeman, goes to an isolated valley in the remote Murchison region of Western Australia to find his brother – who vanished a month earlier while investigating the murder of a police detective. Do the gold smugglers at Breakaway House hold the answers to the mystery? First published as a serial in the Perth Daily News in 1932, the real setting for Breakaway House is Mt Magnet, about 580km north of Perth, deep in gold country.©1987, 2013 William Upfield (P)2019 Bolinda Publishing Mystery Crime Police Procedural Fiction Historical Fiction World Literature

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'... successful as an early effort of Upfield's treatment of the Australian outback.' (The Spirit of Australia)
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I liked the writing, and I liked the reading. Upfield is right up there with Rex Stout and Erle Stanley Gardner and Raymond Chandler-imho.

I’d like to add that Mr Hoskins was Australian in a serious way- no excesses, but just right. He never tired, either.

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