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'Meet Billy Glasheen, a fresh voice in crime fiction. It’s Sydney, the 1950s, and Billy’s trying to make a living, any way he can. Luckily, he’s a likeable guy, with a gift for masterminding elaborate scenarios – whether it’s a gambling scam, transporting a fortune in stolen jewels, or keeping the wheels greased during a hair-raising tour by Little Richard and his rock ‘n’ roll entourage.
But trouble follows close behind—because Billy’s schemes always seem to interfere with the plans of Sydney’s big players, an unholy trinity of crooks, bent cops, and politicians on the make. Suddenly he’s in the frame for murder, and on the run from the police, who’ll happily send him down for it. Billy’s no sleuth, but there’s nowhere to turn for help. To prove it wasn’t him, he’ll have to find the real killer.' (Publication summary)
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Works about this Work
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Doyle's Jump
Andres Kabel
(interviewer),
2001
single work
interview
— Appears in: Crime Factory , no. 3 2001; (p. 22-23) -
Thrills After the Cold War
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 26-27 April 1997; (p. rev 9)
— Review of Get Rich Quick 1996 single work novel ; The Devil Taker 1997 single work novel ; The Washington Club : A Cliff Hardy Novel 1997 single work novel ; In Wolf's Clothing 1997 single work novel -
Berlin Law Lady Breaks the Rules
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 24-25 August 1996; (p. rev 9)
— Review of Get Rich Quick 1996 single work novel ; How to Write Crime 1996 anthology prose criticism -
Fiction Shorts
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 180 1996; (p. 64)
— Review of Get Rich Quick 1996 single work novel ; Diary of a Dwarf : Four Novellas 1995 selected work novella ; Another Year in Africa 1980 single work novel -
A Corpse in the Gallery's Moat
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 4 May 1996; (p. 8)
— Review of Get Rich Quick 1996 single work novel ; The Brush-Off 1996 single work novel
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Australia's Mean Streets are Getting Meaner
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 10 February 1996; (p. 12)
— Review of A Good Time to Die 1996 single work novel ; Death in Egypt : A Murder Mystery 1996 single work novel ; Get Rich Quick 1996 single work novel -
A Corpse in the Gallery's Moat
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 4 May 1996; (p. 8)
— Review of Get Rich Quick 1996 single work novel ; The Brush-Off 1996 single work novel -
Fiction Shorts
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 180 1996; (p. 64)
— Review of Get Rich Quick 1996 single work novel ; Diary of a Dwarf : Four Novellas 1995 selected work novella ; Another Year in Africa 1980 single work novel -
Berlin Law Lady Breaks the Rules
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 24-25 August 1996; (p. rev 9)
— Review of Get Rich Quick 1996 single work novel ; How to Write Crime 1996 anthology prose criticism -
Thrills After the Cold War
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 26-27 April 1997; (p. rev 9)
— Review of Get Rich Quick 1996 single work novel ; The Devil Taker 1997 single work novel ; The Washington Club : A Cliff Hardy Novel 1997 single work novel ; In Wolf's Clothing 1997 single work novel -
Doyle's Jump
Andres Kabel
(interviewer),
2001
single work
interview
— Appears in: Crime Factory , no. 3 2001; (p. 22-23)
Awards
- 1997 joint winner Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing — Best First Novel
- Sydney, New South Wales,
- 1952