The Secret of Hanging Rock -

Joan Lindsay

Angus & Robertson

1987

58 páginas

1h 56m

ISBN-10: 020715550X

The Secret of Hanging Rock is a previously unpublished chapter of Joan Lindsay's 1967 book Picnic at Hanging Rock and contains the "solution" to the mystery in that book. It was originally written as the final chapter, though it was removed before publication and not released until 1987, three years after Lindsay's death.

The missing material amounts to about twelve pages; the rest of The Secret at Hanging Rock is discussion by other authors, including John Taylor and Yvonne Rousseau. It has been argued by critics that much of the power of the original book stems from the suggestion that it was a true story, and the fact that the mystery in the book was never resolved, and therefore it was a good decision by the author to remove this material.