The Secret of the Sandhills

John Stratton's life took a sharp turn when he found a mysterious blue eyed girl who dropped a diary from her pocket. Soon, the murder of Henley Beach catapults him into limelight and the police are after his dear life. Will John manage to outwit the Inspector or will this murder mystery trap him forever? Excerpt: "There was no doubt about my luck being out that bright summer morning, as I stood, shabby and down-at-heel, outside the General Post Office in Adelaide. My collar was frayed away at the edges, my poor old blue suit was well worn and shabby, my hat was stained all over, with the band gone, and the burst in one of my boots marked me down clearly as a man who was not by any means in affluent circumstances. Everything about me told of being down and out. Yet less than two months ago I had got into the train at Broken Hill with a comfortable thick wad of notes in my pocket, the result of over a year's hard work 'out back' as a boundary rider. But a too-confiding trust in my fellow passengers, and a too-deep slumber as the ever-stopping train had ambled on, had been my undoing, and I had awakened at Peterborough in the dim hours of the morning to an empty carriage, and, worse still, to an empty, rifled pocket."