<b>With its rich blend of fiction and faction (&lsquo;non-fiction&rsquo;) crossing between history and philosophy, and combining memoir and biography, <i>Swamp Deaths</i> is a unique series of detective stories written by a swamp ghost writer. It mixes different types of texts and creates new and intriguing ways of environmental storytelling that will fascinate and delight rusted-on readers of detective fiction and attract new ones.</b><br /><br /><b>Rod Giblett is the author of 30 books of fiction and faction (&lsquo;non-fiction&rsquo;). He lived by a swamp in Western Australia for 28 years and wrote several books about it. He now lives in Melbourne and wrote about it as a city of ghost swamps in several books. He is Honorary Associate Professor in the Writing and Literature Program at Deakin University.</b><br /><br /><b>Cover Image:&nbsp;Eugene von Gu&eacute;rard, &lsquo;Mount William and part of the Grampians in West Victoria,&rsquo;&nbsp;1865&nbsp;</b><br /><b>Oil on cardboard, 30.3 x 40.6 cm National Gallery of Victoria,&nbsp;Melbourne&nbsp;</b><br /><b>Collier Bequest 1955 (1562&ndash;5).</b>