THE FIRST MYSTERY is a novel that operates on a number of levels: it is a search, a tracking down of a murderer and a mystery as to who did it. It is a search through many mysterious lands, people and events. Travel through Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Burma, Nepal, Tibet, Kashmir, India and San Francisco (at the beginning of the hippie scene).

On another level it is a search (through dreams and visions) into the sub-conscious mind of the private detective Dave, representing the cynical westerner, who seeks but is unaware of the true nature of his journey. It is also the story of the other main characters, Johnny Wilkulda an Australian aboriginal tracker who represents the intuitive side of humankind, consciously seeking a higher truth for himself and all others; and Robinson, the American ‘LSD Professor’, who has taken the road of mind-expanding drugs, the ‘fast road’. It is also the story and search of many other fascinating characters to be discovered along the way.

Meet Evie Rush, too beautiful to be a murderer? Meet Collins the cold-blooded murderous homicide detective who is relentlessly tracking Robinson and the trackers down; meet Arla, the beautiful black American jazz singer in big trouble in Bangkok; meet Margaret, haunted, looking for love in a rubber plantation in Malaysia; meet the Cambodian Prince in love with music, trying to stop war entering his country; meet Meera the Indian girl, stuck in a whorehouse in Laos and seeing visions of a new messiah; meet Chung, vicious drug lord of the golden triangle; meet Chivananda, evil tantric guru of Calcutta.

Meet them all and the many other strange and fabulous, weird and wonderful characters in THE FIRST MYSTERY ... new kind of novel.