Dimensions
154 x 231 x 26mm
It's 1828. The Running Patterer (colonial Sydney's best known itinerant newshawker) has just solved a series of gruesome murders when a group of unknowns pulls off a daring bank heist. Reluctantly, the Patterer is dragged into crime detection once more, and soon there are more murders to add to his list. Populated with a cast of intriguing real and imagined characters, Robin Adair's Sydney of 1828 comes to life. Could Napoleon Bonaparte, the devil himself, really be in Sydney town? Where do a castrato and a performing dog come into it? And were the robbers really after the money? Only the Patterer has the wherewithal to find out, with a little help from a motley collection of characters and at considerable risk to his own heart.
