As the Moon Sets

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Title As the Moon Sets
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Abstract/Description CHIndex: Synopsis Natalie Sylvester's husband George has disappeared mysteriously. In the house is Natalie's Aunt Dorothy and James McMaugh ("Mack"). McMaugh watches over Natalie with dog-like devotion. Cousins of Natalie's arrive, Andrew, Esther and Hector. Mack feels that their presence is dangerous to Dorothy's safety. He contrives to frighten or persuade them to leave the station. This merely arouses Andrew's suspicions that George's disappearance has something sinister about it. However, young Hector breaks the news that he has discovered George and his motor car at the bottom of a disused mine, and that George has been shot. The police are called. The ending is delightfully contrived so that suspicion is thrown first of all on Mack, then on Natalie, but finally the confession is made by the least expected person, Aunt Dorothy. In Jack Bedson and Julian Croft (eds.), The Campbell Howard Annotated Index of Australian Plays 1920-1950. Armidale, NSW: Centre for Australian Language and Literature Studies, University of New England, 1993.
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Date Issued 1958
Holding Institution Campbell Howard Collection
Language English
Citation Millicent Armstrong, As the Moon Sets, Campbell Howard Collection, 1958
Resource Identifier 44070