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a reviewer noted: "It is something more than a mystery story, however, and might be as aptly described as a highly amusing and clever satire on certain aspects of modern English and American social life, in which a wealthy film artist with an avid love of publicity and an amateur aviator's craze of
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flying stunts are satirised with rare subtlety. The part which a monkey plays in the story gives it a bizarre flavour and heightens the entertainment of the author's spicy narrative."
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This is a mystery novel involving a murder and the theft of jewels from an English country mansion, Tattingwood Hall.
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Miles Franklin
English
Old Blastus of Bandicoot
All That Swagger
Miles Franklin
1933 in Australian literature
"Recent Fiction", The West Australian, 10 June 1933, p4
"Miles Franklin's New Novel", The News, 5 June 1933, p2
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Miles Franklin
My Brilliant Career
Some Everyday Folk and Dawn
Up the Country
Ten Creeks Run
Back to Bool Bool
Old Blastus of Bandicoot
Bring the Monkey
All That Swagger
Pioneers on Parade
My Career Goes Bung
Prelude to Waking
Cockatoos
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