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A Royal Abduction

By: Arthur W. Upfield
Narrated by: John Derum
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Summary

Arthur Upfield, creator of the Aboriginal detective 'Bony', followed his classic crime novel The Sands of Windee with this historical romance.

During a state visit to Australia in 1928, Her Royal Highness Princess Natalie, heiress to the throne of Rolandia, is abducted from the transcontinental train at Cook on the Nullarbor Plain by a gang led by two brilliant Americans, Earle Lawrence and Van Horton. They hide her in caves near Eucla on the Great Australian Bight, until the search is called off and a ransom is arranged....
©2015 William Upfield (P)2019 Bolinda Publishing
Historical Fiction World Literature 20th Century
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Entertaining but excessively fanciful

This book is nothing like the Napoleon Bonaparte stories and nothing like as good. Hard to belueve Upfield wrote it, especially following a masterpiece like The Sands of Windee.

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