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Notes
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Gary Corby's blog site is: http://blog.garycorby.com/
Awards for Works
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The Pericles Commission
Camberwell
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Penguin
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2011
Z1777783
2011
single work
novel
crime
mystery
historical fiction
'Athens, 461BC. A dead man falls from the sky, landing at the feet of a surprised Nicolaos.
It doesn't normally rain corpses. This one is the politician Ephialtes, who only days before had turned Athens into a democracy.
'Rising young statesman Pericles commissions Nicolaos to find the assassin. Nico walks the mean streets of Classical Athens in search of a killer, but what's really on his mind is how to get closer - much closer - to Diotima, an intelligent and annoyingly virgin priestess, and how to shake off his irritating twelve year old brother, Socrates . . .' (From the publisher's website.)
- 2011 nominated Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing — Best First Novel
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