189p. ; red cover; colour illustration of man on horse being filmed from original dust jacket cut and pated onto front cover; blurb from original dust jacket cut and pasted onto front endpaperfictionWhen Archibald Cloyd visited Hollywood as a consultant and expert on a Napoleon film and later went on location with the company in Arizona, the little man met his Waterloo. The black market activities of a gang of tyre thieves, an abandoned gold mine, a kidnapping, a determined widow named Hammer, an attractive young ranch owner, Archibald's own mysterious and resourceful male secretary, and a bizarre assortment of Western and Hollywood characters are all ingredients of a plot that involves Archibald in difficulties as tense as ever encountered by his famous prototype.fiction, western, thriller, clarence budington kelland

Panton Hill Football League match results On reverse of clipping "Eltham has new Health Officer" about the appointment of Mr C.J. (Barry) Gaudion in succession to Mr W.U. Hughers who retired the previous month.Digital file only - scanned by EDHS from item on loanc.j. (barry) gaudion, health officer, lew howard collection, match details, panton hill football league, research football club, shire of eltham, w.u. hughers

252p. ; red cover with original dust jacket cut and pasted onto the front cover with the text: Run: a most unusual blending of the detective story, psychological thriller, man-hunt thriller * It's very exciting. It's strangely fascinating. It's by Margaret Shedd well-known for her stories in "The New Yorker"fictionIn the first sentence of the first paragraph a boy is running. We don't at once know what he is running from, or where he is running to, and not until the end of the book can we fully understand why he is running. It is a story about murder; and we want to know who committed the murder; and, bit by bit, we piece together the truth - which, by a feat of ingenious construction, is revealed very, very gradually while the action keeps moving at express speed ...fiction, crime, mystery, margaret shedd

The Dwarf Of Dark Mountain Author: Isabel Maude Peacocke Illustrator: Norman Sutcliffe Publisher: Ward Lock & Co Date: Further Information: Plain brown/tan cloth binding with the title and author hand-lettered directly onto the spine with no decorative illustration, gilt stamping, or pictorial design. The spine has a Library label with an inscription.fictionThe Dwarf of Dark Mountain is a children's adventure novel illustrated by Norman Sutcliffe. Set against the backdrop of the New Zealand bush and rural landscapes, the story follows a group of young protagonists on a mystery-filled adventure centred around a local geological landmark known as "Dark Mountain". Typical of Isabel Maud Peacocke's popular juvenile fiction of the 1930s (such as The Cruise of the Crazy Jane and Cathleen with a C), the book weaves together themes of bush navigation and exploration. The children venture through dense ti-tree scrub and native fern gullies, with the narrative centring around the titular "dwarf" of the mountain blending rural Australian and New Zealand family life with wholesome mystery, moral growth, and outdoor adventure.warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, shipwrecked-artefact, book, the dwarf of dark mountain, isabel maude peacocke, warrnambool mechanics’ institute, pattison collection, warrnambool library, ralph eric pattison, corangamite regional library service, warrnambool city librarian, mechanics’ institute library, victorian library board, warrnambool books and records, warrnambool children’s library, i. m. cluett., illustrator norman sutcliffe

Hard cover book. Sinbad the Soldier Author: Percival Christopher Wren Publisher: John Murray Date: 1935-1958 Further Information: Green Cloth repair to spine hardcover is brown with lettering to spine in black. The spine has a Library label with an inscription.fictionThe book describes an adventure story about a gun-runner captured by Arabs and presented to the Mysterious White Sultan, who eventually becomes the Sultan’s second in command in his desert army. It is the first title in the “Sinbad” books in Delphi’s complete edition of Wren’s works, followed by Explosion and Spanish Maine. These are colonial and desert adventure yarns in the same vein as Wren’s Foreign Legion books. warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, shipwrecked-artefact, book, sinbad the soldier, percival christopher wren, anak (son)

Hard cover book. Beau Ideal Author: Percival Christopher Wren Publisher: John Murray Date: 1929-1930 Further Information: Brown Cloth hardcover with red repaired cloth spine lettering to spine in white hand written text and printed to front cover in black. The spine has a Library label with an inscription.fictionBeau Ideal is the third volume of Wren’s Foreign Legion trilogy and the ‘American’ novel of the set. It follows Otis Vanbrugh, brother of Hank and Mary Vanbrugh from Beau Sabreur. Otis and Mary leave a tyrannical father in Wyoming and tour Europe. Their travels then take them to North Africa, where their story becomes entangled with the events of Beau Geste and Beau Sabreur. The main thread of the story is Otis’s devotion to Isobel Geste. She asks him to find her husband, John, who has vanished in Africa while looking for his old friends Hank and Buddy. Otis, who loves her, joins the Foreign Legion hoping to be sent to the penal battalion where John may be held. The novel also reveals what really happened the night the Blue Water jewel was stolen, and it is described as a tale of ‘ideal and platonic love’. The subject book carries a note saying it is a complete, self-contained novel that is also the last of the trilogy.warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, shipwrecked-artefact, book, beau ideal, percival christopher wren

This is a soft cover book of 328 pages. It was written by Allan Scarfe. The cover is black, grey and white and the lettering is white on the front cover and black on the spine. The front cover has an illustration of masked figures and a body and the back cover has excerpts from critics’ remarks about other Scarfe books. fictionAn anti-globalisation thriller drawing on the author's experiences in India.allan scarfe, warrnambool author

p.205.fictionSecond World War thriller. British Intelligence wants to capture a U-boat to learn the secrets, but one man, branded a coward, tries to stop them.world war 1939 - 1945 - fiction, submarine warfare - world war ii

p.394.fictionWhen war was declared on 3 September 1939, No. 1 Squadron was posted to France to help the BEF halt the German advance. The Squadron is hardy, intensely loyal, and at the beginning of the campaign, hugely successful in shooting down German planes when they are often outnumbered. Then the offensive begins in earnest, the losses mount and the horror of the retreat to Dunkirk gives a whole new meaning to the concept of total war.Told through the experiences of an English pilot, Kit Curtis, who dreams of gallant deeds and personal glory, and a more battle hardened American, Ossie Wolf, this is 'Band of Brothers' for the RAF, a no-holds-barred, action packed war thriller.world war 1939-1945 - britain - aerial operations - fiction, fighter pilots - fiction

maps, p.270.fictionThe classic World War II thriller from the acclaimed master of action and suspense. Twelve hundred British soldiers isolated on the small island of Kheros off the Turkish coast, waiting to die. Twelve hundred lives in jeopardy, lives that could be saved if only the guns could be silenced. The guns of Navarone, vigilant, savage and catastrophically accurate. Navarone itself, grim bastion of narrow straits manned by a mixed garrison of Germans and Italians, an apparently impregnable iron fortress. To Captain Keith Mallory, skllled saboteur, trained mountaineer, fell the task of leading the small party detailed to scale the vast, impossible precipice of Navarone and to blow up the guns. The Guns of Navarone is the story of that mission, the tale of a calculated risk taken in the time of war... world war 1939-1945 - fiction, special operations - fiction

Gracefully written and as gripping as a thriller... O'Brien makes the hunt a thrilling pursuit. vietnam war (1961-1975), missing persons -- fiction., vietnamese conflict, 1961-1975 -- fiction

fictionNever has there been a more graphic account of the SAS in action, never a thriller so authentically grounded in the twists and turns of undercover warfare.sas, fiction

Gracefully written and as gripping as a thriller... O'Brien makes the hunt a thrilling pursuit. vietnam war (1961-1975), missing persons -- fiction., vietnamese conflict, 1961-1975 -- fiction

Gracefully written and as gripping as a thriller... O'Brien makes the hunt a thrilling pursuit. vietnam war (1961-1975), missing persons -- fiction., vietnamese conflict, 1961-1975 -- fiction

p.222.fictionAn intense, atmospheric novel that powerfully evokes the restless, romantic days of fighting Ireland, A Death in Ireland is a literate thriller of uncommon sophistication, rich in theme, style and complexity of characters.ireland - 20th century politics, ireland - geography

Green hardcover book for boys, with the title Bretherton Khaki or Field-Grey? by W.F. Morris as well as the publisher Geoffrey Bles printed in black lettering with the symbol of a bird. 319p. 319p.fictionA tale of mystery and identity, first published in 1929 is an account of the brutal conditions at the battlefront in WW1 between English and German soldiers. It is an espionage thriller with a twisting and unusual plot with the English soldier G Bretherton as the main character.war fiction, romance fiction, spies fiction

310p. : Frontispiece illustration ; olive green cover with original dust jacket cut and pasted onto cover with title on the back and indecipherable word on the front coverfictionPerishable Goods is a 1928 novel by the English author Dornford Yates (Cecil William Mercer), the second in his Chandos thriller series and a sequel to Blind Corner. While on holiday at Poganec in Carinthia with Berry, Daphne and Boy (from the Berry books), Adèle is kidnapped by the villain 'Rose' Noble (in revenge for his defeat in Blind Corner) and is held captive at the Castle of Gath near Lass. A ransom is demanded. She is rescued by Chandos, Mansel, Hanbury and their servants.fiction, adventure, dornford yates, cecil william mercer

Hard cover book. The Crew of the Anaconda Author: A G MacDonell Publisher: MacMillan & Co Date: 1940 Further Information: Light Blue Cloth hardcover with no lettering to spine. The spine has a Library label with an inscription.fictionThe Crew of the Anaconda (1940) is a Second World War espionage thriller in the style of the “Boy’s Own” adventure tale. The protagonist, Denis Halloran, is an adventurer and the owner of the Anaconda, a high-powered, fast motorboat originally used to evade law enforcement during his illicit activities in the Americas. Recruited into the British Secret Service by a shrewd Intelligence colonel, Halloran and his three-man crew use the Anaconda to thwart a German espionage network operating around Great Britain and to disrupt Nazi preparations for a submarine (U-boat) offensive.the crew of the anaconda, a g macdonell, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, warrnambool, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, shipwrecked-artefact, book, pattison collection, warrnambool library, warrnambool mechanics’ institute, ralph eric pattison, corangamite regional library service, warrnambool city librarian, mechanics’ institute library, victorian library board, warrnambool books and records, warrnambool children’s library