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y separately published work icon The Apricot Colonel single work   novel   crime   mystery  
Is part of Cassandra Travers Marion Halligan , 2006 series - author novel (number 1 in series)
Issue Details: First known date: 2006... 2006 The Apricot Colonel
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'Marion Halligan at her lighthearted and wryly humorous best in a tale of mystery and murder, of beauty and yearning, and of a surprising love. A beautiful man, and all she can do is tinker with his prose. For Cassandra, an editor, books are easy. It's real life that's the challenge: it doesn't sit quietly and let itself be fixed. Right now Cassandra's life seems far too heavy on the suspense, while the romance is distinctly unconvincing. But that was before the murders started. And before she suspected that her own name was on the killer's hit list. Murder, match-making and the dark arts of book editing: The Apricot Colonel is Halligan at her light-hearted best.' (Publication summary)

Notes

  • Dedication: For my beloved Lucy who read this novel and asked excellent questions.
  • Epigraph: Man thinks, God laughs. (Jewish proverb)
  • Epigraph: It pleases me to think that the art of the novel came into the world as an echo of God's laughter. (Milan Kundera)
  • Prequel to Murder on the Apricot Coast.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2006 .
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      Cover image courtesy of publisher.
      Extent: 263p.
      ISBN: 1741147662, 9781741147667
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Related Works

In Her Words Marion Halligan , 2006 extract novel (The Apricot Colonel)
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 4 February 2006; (p. 11)
y separately published work icon Murder on the Apricot Coast Marion Halligan , Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2008 Z1472152 2008 single work novel crime

'All is not as it seems in the calm, well-ordered streets of the nation's capital. After the turbulence of their courtship, Cassandra and the colonel have settled into wedded bliss - only to have it shattered by a death far too close to home. A friend's daughter is found dead from a drug overdose - a tragic suicide. But when her unfinished manuscript turns up containing an explosive expose of the local child prostitution scene, suicide turns to murder.

'With characteristic panache, much reading between the lines, and a magnificent wardrobe of women's clothes (his), Cassandra and her colonel set out to find the truth in this eagerly awaited sequel to The Apricot Colonel.' (Publisher's blurb)
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Works about this Work

Canberran Odyssey Russell Wenholz , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: Sunday Canberra Times , 13 November 2011; (p. 26)
Love, Actually Marion Halligan , 2007 single work prose
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , April vol. 2 no. 3 2007; (p. 25) Meanjin , April vol. 66 no. 1 2007; (p. 209-214) Marion Halligan asserts that it is 'the ordinary business' of the novelist 'to decide which material will form the basis of the stories she has in mind. Mine are essentially domestic, they are about life and death, love, marriage, birth, temptation, all the everyday things, and the everyday is a rich source of images'.
[Review] The Apricot Colonel Tony Smith , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 66 no. 3 2006; (p. 241-243)
— Review of The Apricot Colonel Marion Halligan , 2006 single work novel
[Review] The Apricot Colonel Melinda Best , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: Wet Ink , Summer no. 5 2006; (p. 57-58)
— Review of The Apricot Colonel Marion Halligan , 2006 single work novel
After the Murder, the Happy Ending Marion Halligan , 2006 single work column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 2 December 2006; (p. 3)
The Slick and the Dead Peter Pierce , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 5 February 2006; (p. 19)
— Review of Dead Set : A Brad Chen Novel Kel Robertson , 2006 single work novel ; The Apricot Colonel Marion Halligan , 2006 single work novel
Ripe for Revenge Suzanna Clarke , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 4 - 5 February 2006; (p. 6)
— Review of The Apricot Colonel Marion Halligan , 2006 single work novel
Crime File Graeme Blundell , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 11-12 February 2006; (p. 10)
— Review of Saving Billie Peter Corris , 2005 single work novel ; Dead Set : A Brad Chen Novel Kel Robertson , 2006 single work novel ; The Apricot Colonel Marion Halligan , 2006 single work novel ; The Berlin Cross Greg Flynn , 2005 single work novel
[Review] The Apricot Colonel Gay Bilson , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 21 February vol. 124 no. 6508 2006; (p. 69)
— Review of The Apricot Colonel Marion Halligan , 2006 single work novel
Bottled Gold Kerryn Goldsworthy , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 18-19 February 2006; (p. 20-21)
— Review of The Apricot Colonel Marion Halligan , 2006 single work novel
The Power of Positive Rejection Frances Atkinson , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Age , 28 January 2006; (p. 26-27) The Sydney Morning Herald , 28-29 January 2006; (p. 20-21)
Revenge is Sweet Samela Harris , 2006 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 4 February 2006; (p. 11)
Bearing Fruit in a Garden City Gillian Lord , 2006 single work column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 4 February 2006; (p. 11)
Insubordinate Clauses Marion Halligan , 2006 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 18-19 February 2006; (p. 2) Halligan ponders whether her novel, The Apricot Colonel, could be construed as seditious under the definitions of the 2005 Anti-Terrorism Bill. If so, Halligan wonder to whom she would make her one, permissable telephone call.
After the Murder, the Happy Ending Marion Halligan , 2006 single work column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 2 December 2006; (p. 3)
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