Unexpected Corollary
by Derek Scales
Price: $2.99 USD. 82760 words.
Published on February 16, 2012. Fiction.
It's 1863 and a power struggle is developing in Melbourne between the established Chinese brothel owners, led by Che Quon, known as Charlie Che, and American Earl Christian and his team of Californian coach drivers. Young Wu is shot dead and a day later an American is found hanging from a tree. They are the first of many puzzling deaths.
Location: Australia
Member Since: Sep. 19, 2011
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Derek Scales
Biography
Soon after I taught myself to type, a long time ago, I was contributing to the Young Readers Page of the Melbourne Herald and selling motor sport and hill climb stories to the Australian Motor Sport.
Unexpectedly I was hired by a technical journal publisher and given a desk in the general office where I was forced to display my incompetence to the company's professional typists while preparing technical copy. Then, a few years in the world of advertising agencies and public relations consultancies encouraged me to turn my back on big cities.
I moved the family to a small country acreage, built the first pise' house in the district then freelanced for the daily Border Mail and the National ABC Broadcaster, reporting on magistrates court and local government. To add to the fun I then bought the weekly Ovens and Murray Advertiser, with all of its 150 years of history while still covering court and council.
On the move again I uprooted the family to central Queensland for several years and while there reported on the Aboriginal Deaths in Custody royal commission hearings for the ABC.
A decade ago I returned to Victoria and settled on Phillip Island, on the south coast, to research life in the 1850s and 60s, which is the background for my historic novels.
Unexpectedly I was hired by a technical journal publisher and given a desk in the general office where I was forced to display my incompetence to the company's professional typists while preparing technical copy. Then, a few years in the world of advertising agencies and public relations consultancies encouraged me to turn my back on big cities.
I moved the family to a small country acreage, built the first pise' house in the district then freelanced for the daily Border Mail and the National ABC Broadcaster, reporting on magistrates court and local government. To add to the fun I then bought the weekly Ovens and Murray Advertiser, with all of its 150 years of history while still covering court and council.
On the move again I uprooted the family to central Queensland for several years and while there reported on the Aboriginal Deaths in Custody royal commission hearings for the ABC.
A decade ago I returned to Victoria and settled on Phillip Island, on the south coast, to research life in the 1850s and 60s, which is the background for my historic novels.
Books
Eleventh Horse
by Derek Scales
Price: $2.99 USD. 88240 words. Published on December 4, 2011. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review)
Ex Melbourne policeman and Maori War veteran Robin Cork returns home suffering from a serious wound and a case of war nerves. He stays at Gibsons Corner, a village that is a Pandora's box of a failed tavern robbery, two murders, a cattle stealing alliance and a missing grey gelding. While he struggles to close the box several local women speculate on his past and muse on his length of stay.
Price: $2.99 USD. 88240 words. Published on December 4, 2011. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review) Ex Melbourne policeman and Maori War veteran Robin Cork returns home suffering from a serious wound and a case of war nerves. He stays at Gibsons Corner, a village that is a Pandora's box of a failed tavern robbery, two murders, a cattle stealing alliance and a missing grey gelding. While he struggles to close the box several local women speculate on his past and muse on his length of stay.