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Came a Hot Friday by Ronald Hugh Morrieson
Category: Classic | Series: Popular Penguins
Arson, murder, sex and hair-raising midnight adventures at a town called Tainuia Junction. It's Friday when the silver-tongued Wes Pennington and his sidekick Cyril Kidman come to town with a trick to play on the local bookmaker. But there's already other skullduggery afoot ...not to speak of the Te Wha ...Show more
Came a Hot Friday by Ronald Morrieson
Category: Fiction
It was a Friday when Wes and Cyril came to town with a trick to play on the local bookmaker, but there was already other skullduggery afoot.
The Scarecrow by Ronald Hugh Morrieson
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Text Classics
"The same week our fowls were stolen, Daphne Moran had her throat cut." Fourteen-year-old Neddy Poindexter and his mate Les take swift revenge on the chook-rustling Lynch Gang, but things turn sinister when vulture-like Hubert Salter stalks into Klynham. There's a sex killer on the loose, and Neddy is i ...Show more
The Scarecrow by Ronald Hugh Morrieson
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
'The same week our fowls were stolen, Daphne Moran had her throat cut.' The greatest opening line in New Zealand literature opens this hilarious Gothic melodrama. Klynham is a sleepy little New Zealand town in which not a lot happens. But then one moonlit night the Scarecrow arrives, swilling brandies a ...Show more
The Scarecrow by Ronald Hugh Morrieson
Category: Fiction
The same week our fowls were stolen, Daphne Moran had her throat cut. There's a sex killer at large, but 14-year-old Neddy Poindexter and his mate Les are much more concerned about the fate of their chooks and the terrible enmity of the Lynch gang. Ages 15+
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