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'A missing teenager, drugs, yachts, the sex trade and a cold trail that leads from Sydney to Norfolk Island, Byron Bay and Coolangatta. Can Cliff Hardy find out what's really going on?
'Will one man's loss be Hardy's gain?
''I'd read about it in the papers, heard the radio reports and seen the TV coverage and then forgotten about it, the way you do with news stories.'
'A missing girl, drugs, yachts, the sex trade and a cold trail that leads from Sydney to Norfolk Island, Byron Bay and Coolangatta.
'The police suspect the father, Gerard Fonteyn OA, a wealthy businessman. But he's hired Cliff to find her, given him unlimited expenses and posted a $250,000 reward for information.
'Finally there's a break - an unconfirmed sighting of Juliana Fonteyn, alive and well. But as usual, nothing is straightforward. Various other players are in the game - and Cliff doesn't know the rules, or even what the game might be. He's determined to find out, and as the bodies mount up the danger to himself and to Juliana increases. ' (Publication summary)
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Dedication: For Jean / The first one was for her and so is the last.
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Epigraph: And the losers now will be later to win. - Bob Dylan 'The Times They Are a 'Changin'
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- Sound recording.
Works about this Work
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Peter Corris : Win, Lose or Draw
2017
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essay
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , September 2017;'Clear observations and easy rhythms continue to give momentum in this final novel by Peter Corris.'
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Quirky Sleuths, Slippery Quarry
2017
single work
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— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 11 February 2017; (p. 18) 'Cairns and its region are still tourist drawcards, although it’s now ‘‘a mature destination’’, in the anxious phrase of operators seeking to rebrand the sights. Artists have called more often than novelists, among them Ian Fairweather, Donald Friend and Ray Crooke. Now far north Queensland has found an ambivalent literary laureate in Candice Fox, whose novel Crimson Lakeis set among ‘‘the croc-infested Cairns marshlands’’, ‘‘stretches of yellow sugar cane … running for kilometres, the walls of a hidden city’’.' (Introduction) -
The Godfather : Peter Corris on Writing His Final Book
2017
single work
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— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , January 2017; 'With Win, Lose or Draw from Allen & Unwin published on 3 January this year, I have produced my last book. Early reviews and notices suggest that it is in no way inferior to the 41 others in the Hardy series. So why stop?' (Introduction)
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The Godfather : Peter Corris on Writing His Final Book
2017
single work
column
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , January 2017; 'With Win, Lose or Draw from Allen & Unwin published on 3 January this year, I have produced my last book. Early reviews and notices suggest that it is in no way inferior to the 41 others in the Hardy series. So why stop?' (Introduction) -
Quirky Sleuths, Slippery Quarry
2017
single work
essay
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 11 February 2017; (p. 18) 'Cairns and its region are still tourist drawcards, although it’s now ‘‘a mature destination’’, in the anxious phrase of operators seeking to rebrand the sights. Artists have called more often than novelists, among them Ian Fairweather, Donald Friend and Ray Crooke. Now far north Queensland has found an ambivalent literary laureate in Candice Fox, whose novel Crimson Lakeis set among ‘‘the croc-infested Cairns marshlands’’, ‘‘stretches of yellow sugar cane … running for kilometres, the walls of a hidden city’’.' (Introduction) -
Peter Corris : Win, Lose or Draw
2017
single work
essay
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , September 2017;'Clear observations and easy rhythms continue to give momentum in this final novel by Peter Corris.'
- Sydney, New South Wales,
- Norfolk Island, Australian External Territories,
- Byron Bay, Byron Bay - Broken Head area, Far North Coast, New South Wales,
- Coolangatta, Berry - Shoalhaven Heads area, Shoalhaven area, South Coast, New South Wales,