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Polygon Polygon i(A36483 works by)
Writing name for: Paul Hasluck
Gender: Male
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3 y separately published work icon Bloody Women Helen FitzGerald , Edinburgh : Polygon , 2017 10442372 2009 single work novel crime mystery

Returning to Scotland tp organise her wedding, Catriona is overcome with the jitters. She decides to tie up loose ends by seeking out her ex-boyfriends. Trouble is they are all dead and she is getting the blame!

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1 Australian Authors: A Two Volume Survey Polygon , 1940 single work review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 28 December 1940; (p. 5)
— Review of Australian Literature from Its Beginnings to 1935 : A Descriptive and Bibliographical Survey of Books by Australian Authors in Poetry, Drama, Fiction, Criticism and Anthology with Subsidiary Entries to 1938 1940 single work bibliography
1 Radio Drama : Series Concludes with a Stage Play Polygon , 1937 single work review
— Appears in: West Australian , 4 May 1937; (p. 22)
— Review of The Black Horse Vance Palmer , 1933 single work radio play

West Australian drama critic 'Polygon' criticises the 1937 radio production of Vance Palmer's The Black Horse as being ' little more than the reading aloud of the play.' The review suggests that the problem lay in the fact that it needed considerable rewriting for radio, or at the very least 'free treatment by the producer.
1 Two Local Plays : Repertory Club Productions Polygon , 1935 single work
— Appears in: The West Australian , 6 July 1935; (p. 15)
— Review of Centurion : A Drama in Two Scenes Alexander Turner , 1937 single work drama ; The Queen's Marie Phyllis Tweedie , 1934 single work drama

'To make excuses for local products or to treat them on a different level from any other products is to insult. So, it is hammer and tongs for the two plays by West Australian writers which were presented by the Repertory Club at a club evening in the Assembly Hall last night. The first play was The Centurion, by Mr. Alexander Turner, of Pingelly. It gained second place in the club's short play competition earlier in the year.... Miss Phyllis Dorrington Tweedie, the author of The Queen's Marie, the second play, is more capable than Mr. Turner in many directions, but emotion is the quality she lacks...'
1 Perth Playwrights : One-Act Plays Presented Polygon , 1933 single work
— Appears in: The West Australian , 2 April 1933; (p. 14)
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