The Dark Highway
by Arthur Gask
Publisher: The Courier Mail 1928
ISBN/ASIN: 1502512696
Number of pages: 299
Description:
They were the last words Eli Barton ever spoke. There was a sudden flash of fire from behind the small car in the shadows -- the loud crack of a revolver fired at close range, and the great cattle king dropped lifeless upon the sands of the Coorong with a bullet in his brain...
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