The contentious relatives living on the remote Forst sheep station are united against an interloper from Sydney who was hired to nurse old Mrs. Forst in her last illness. Now the heir, Gregory Forst, has become engaged to marry her and the others fea...
A child has been kidnapped. His father, Evan Kiley, a newspaper reporter, telephones the home of the Wintons, a well-to-do family whose daughter had been abducted a year or so earlier. The Wintons paid and their child was restored to them; they did n...
Johnnie is a nine-year-old city orphan recently placed with a couple on a cattle ranch in the Australian outback. But he is not quite the foster child they had in mind. He is "cheeky and lazy, cowardly and stubborn." When he claims to have witnessed ...
Nine-year-old Ann and her Aunt Rachel are the only witnesses who can connect Mart to the girl he strangled at a nature reserve, so he begins to stalk them, sending a wave of terror through the inhabitants of a small Australian town. Reprint....
Locked in the kitchen of an apartment where her baby-sitter has been murdered, and with her mother dead and her father traveling, a little girl is forced to rely on her own wits to escape from her prison before the killer realizes that he has left be...