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y separately published work icon White Meat single work   novel   crime   detective  
Is part of A Cliff Hardy Novel Peter Corris , 1980- series - author novel short story (number 2 in series)
Issue Details: First known date: 1981... 1981 White Meat
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He needs a nice smooth job, something to pay the bills - and keep his glass filled.

But smooth this one isn't. Ted Tarleton is a very rich bookie whose beautiful, spoiled daughter, Noni, is missing. Tarleton wants Hardy to find her. The logical place to start is with Noni's boyfriend, but the actor has long since ceased to keep tabs on her.

So Hardy makes for seedy La Perouse, where the local aboriginals recognise Noni's photo. She's the one they call "white meat". And Hardy will take more than a few blows as he follows her into the violent wreckage of her own past...

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Bound together with The Dying Trade and The Marvellous Boy in A Cliff Hardy Collection.
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Pan , 1981 .
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      Extent: 205p.
      ISBN: 0330270184
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    y separately published work icon A Cliff Hardy Collection Peter Corris , Sydney : Pan , 1986 Z562642 1986 selected work novel crime Sydney : Pan , 1986 pg. 409-607
    Note: Bound together with The Dying Trade and The Marvellous Boy in A Cliff Hardy Collection.
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,      :       Ballantine Books ,       1986 .
      Extent: 213p.
      ISBN: 0449130274; 9780449130278
    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2014 .
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      Extent: 204p.
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      • Publication Date: November 2014
      ISBN: 9781760113872
Form: audiobook
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Works about this Work

They Should Make a Movie of That : White Meat Erin Free , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: FilmInk , 29 February 2016;
Stalking the Mean Streets of Bondi Stephen Knight , 1990 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 6 January 1990; (p. 34)
Peter Corris : From Hardy to Browning Michael J. Tolley , 1987 single work criticism
— Appears in: Quadrant , December vol. 31 no. 12 1987; (p. 63-65)
Crime Writer Peter Fuller (interviewer), 1986 single work interview
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 1 February 1986; (p. B1)
The Screenplay, Compared to the Novel is a Comic Strip Michael Cordell (interviewer), 1985 single work criticism interview
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 16 November 1985; (p. 48)
Thick Skulls and Gum-Shoes Georgia Savage , 1981 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 34 1981; (p. 19)
— Review of White Meat Peter Corris , 1981 single work novel
Cult Figure Battles On Stuart Sayers , 1985 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Age , 12 January 1985; (p. 10)
Crime Writer Peter Fuller (interviewer), 1986 single work interview
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 1 February 1986; (p. B1)
The Screenplay, Compared to the Novel is a Comic Strip Michael Cordell (interviewer), 1985 single work criticism interview
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 16 November 1985; (p. 48)
Peter Corris : From Hardy to Browning Michael J. Tolley , 1987 single work criticism
— Appears in: Quadrant , December vol. 31 no. 12 1987; (p. 63-65)
Stalking the Mean Streets of Bondi Stephen Knight , 1990 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 6 January 1990; (p. 34)
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