Breakaway House

By: Arthur W. Upfield

Narrated by: Peter Hosking

Harry Tremayne, a policeman, goes to an isolated valley in the remote Murchison region of Western Australia to find his brother – who vanished a month earlier while investigating the murder of a police detective. Do the gold smugglers at Breakaway House hold the answers to the mystery? First published as a serial in the Perth Daily News in 1932, the real setting for Breakaway House is Mt Magnet, about 580km north of Perth, deep in gold country.©1987, 2013 William Upfield (P)2019 Bolinda Publishing

Critic reviews

'... successful as an early effort of Upfield's treatment of the Australian outback.' (The Spirit of Australia)

I’d like to add that Mr Hoskins was Australian in a serious way- no excesses, but just right. He never tired, either.

I liked the writing, and I liked the reading. Upfield is right up there with Rex Stout and Erle Stanley Gardner and Raymond Chandler-imho.