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'After yet another slow week at the cash register, that fine purveyor of second-hand literature, Susko Books, is facing financial ruin. Jack Susko sets off to a gallery in Woollahra to scrape up some coin with the sale of an old art catalogue. With his usual panache and exquisite timing, he arrives just as De Groot Galleries is being done over by masked thieves. Along with a mysterious object from the safe, the robbers seize a valuable first edition from Jack's bag, too.
'When the owner of the gallery doesn't want to call the cops, Jack is offered a sizeable sum to keep silent: but when de Groot arrives at the bookshop with his heavy to renege on the deal, all bets are off. With an ease that almost constitutes a gift, Jack Susko finds himself at the centre of a world full of duplicity, lies and art theft.' (From the publisher's website.)
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Dedication: To Jules
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Featured by the BIG Book Club, South Australia, February 2010.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Sound recording.
Works about this Work
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Fiction
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 27 February 2010; (p. 22)
— Review of The Black Russian : A Jack Susko Mystery 2010 single work novel ; The Egyptologist 2004 single work novel -
Untitled
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 20 February 2010; (p. 25)
— Review of The Black Russian : A Jack Susko Mystery 2010 single work novel -
The Art of Being a Bad Luck Magnet
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 13-14 February 2010; (p. 22-23)
— Review of The Black Russian : A Jack Susko Mystery 2010 single work novel -
Soft-Boiled Schmuck
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , February no. 318 2010; (p. 26)
— Review of The Black Russian : A Jack Susko Mystery 2010 single work novel -
Untitled
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , Summer 2009-2010 vol. 89 no. 5 2009; (p. 35)
— Review of The Black Russian : A Jack Susko Mystery 2010 single work novel
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Untitled
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , Summer 2009-2010 vol. 89 no. 5 2009; (p. 35)
— Review of The Black Russian : A Jack Susko Mystery 2010 single work novel -
Soft-Boiled Schmuck
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , February no. 318 2010; (p. 26)
— Review of The Black Russian : A Jack Susko Mystery 2010 single work novel -
The Art of Being a Bad Luck Magnet
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 13-14 February 2010; (p. 22-23)
— Review of The Black Russian : A Jack Susko Mystery 2010 single work novel -
Untitled
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 20 February 2010; (p. 25)
— Review of The Black Russian : A Jack Susko Mystery 2010 single work novel -
Fiction
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 27 February 2010; (p. 22)
— Review of The Black Russian : A Jack Susko Mystery 2010 single work novel ; The Egyptologist 2004 single work novel
Awards
- Sydney, New South Wales,