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Peter Corris
Cliff Hardy’s investigation into the murder of a rich developer takes him into the high flying world of corporate Sydney. The beautiful Claudia Fleischman has been charged with the murder…
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‘The godfather of Australian crime fiction.’
Charlie Thomas, born in a humpy camp in the 1920s, learns to fight early. He fights in the backblocks of Queensland during the Depression…
Hardy’s thirteenth case leads him back fifty years to the construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
Cliff Hardy is stony broke, which makes it hard to resist a job from the man he’s been losing money to. Ted Tarleton is…
Cliff Hardy starts out to help a friend but before long he’s looking for an enemy - William Mountain: boozer, TV scriptwriter, would-be novelist…
Is brilliant young filmmaker Carmel Wise the innocent victim of gangland violence or is she enmeshed in a pornography racket as the press and…
Politician Peter January is having trouble staying alive so he hires Cliff Hardy to help him. Hardy dislikes the role of politician’s ‘security consultant’…
Hardy has never been much of a family man, so when he meets his second cousin Patrick Malloy it’s like being hit with a left hook to the solar plexus…
William Cyril Moxley was hanged at Sydney’s Long Bay Gaol in 1932 - the first execution in New South Wales for eight years. His crime was the brutal rape and…
Richard Browning, an Australian actor in Hollywood during World War II, is down on his luck. He is running a small detective agency. A missing-person case takes him into Chinatown…
This is the sequel to Browning Battles On , in which Browning encounters passion and death among Tamil guerrillas in old Ceylon. The author also wrote Beverly Hills Browning…
A collection of gripping short stories in the Cliff Hardy series from highly successful Australian crime fiction writer, Peter Corris.
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A gripping novel tracing the life of Aboriginal boxer and journalist Charlie Thomas from highly successful Australian writer Peter Corris.
A thrilling novel in the Cliff Hardy series from highly successful Australian crime fiction writer, Peter Corris.
Peter Corris’ world weary but always charismatic hero Cliff Hardy has long been established as Australia’s favourite investigator. Often bloodied but never bowed in this latest gripping novel, Hardy is…
Peter Corris’ latest crime classic sees Private Investigator Cliff Hardy leaving the mean streets of Sydney for the Illawarra escarpment, and a gripping combination of a mysterious death, a missing…
A fast-paced and entertaining collection of stories featuring Australia’s favourite PI, Cliff Hardy.
Australia’s favourite PI, Cliff Hardy is back in a story set against the backdrop of a Federal election campaign.
The indefatigable Cliff Hardy helps out an old police mate with an unresolved case, involving dodgy doctors, an illegitimate child and a violent confrontation.
Dirty dealings, corrupt cops, computer geeks and a final showdown at an exclusive Sydney beach - is this Cliff Hardy’s last adventure?
Cliff Hardy has his hands full with murder, blackmail, embezzlement and more in this new collection of short stories.
Australia’s best-known private investigator, Cliff Hardy, might have his licence back but does he still have what it takes to cut it as a PI on its seedy streets?
An earthquake in Newcastle leads Hardy to his fourteenth case.
Cliff Hardy always finds it hard to turn down a job, but in the case of Paula Wilberforce he should have followed his instincts. Against his better judgement, he becomes…
Private investigator Cliff Hardy is nothing if not versatile, and this collection of his cases sees him mixing with the good, the bad and the quirky. He tracks delinquent arsonists…
Sex, sport and steroids - an explosive mix for Hardy’s 22nd case.
The story of Cliff Hardy’s very first case.
Casinos are not to Cliff Hardy’s liking, nor is wearing a suit and tie, which is why he turns down the job of head of security at a new Sydney…
Corruption, murder and a missing girl: routine for Cliff Hardy - except this time it’s personal.Cliff Hardy is stunned to get a phone call from his ex-wife Cynthia. It’s been…
Although the meaner streets of inner Sydney are his traditional stamping grounds, Cliff Hardy finds that crime can flourish in the leafy, well-heeled outer suburbs as well.
Cliff Hardy is distracted by a romantic entanglement, but low on funds, and with his private investigator’s licence restored, he is persuaded to take on a dubious case - a…
An old flame, former police officer Glen Withers, is back in Cliff Hardy’s life - but it’s strictly business as Glen is now also a private investigator, with a wealthy…
Politics, murder and sex push Hardy to the limit.
For almost four decades Peter Corris was known as ‘the godfather of Australian fiction’, and Cliff Hardy has been Australia’s favourite private investigator since he solved his first case in…
In this gripping novel from highly successful Australian crime fiction writer Peter Corris, Cliff Hardy’s reluctant status as ‘security consultant’ to a politician takes him to Washington DC where the…
A riveting novel in the Cliff Hardy series from highly successful Australian crime fiction writer, Peter Corris.
A collection of fast-paced, gritty stories from Australia’s best-loved crime writer. In stories that range from Sydney’s mean back streets to its glittering but deadly harbour, Corris’s hero Cliff Hardy…
My hands tremble as I close the faded, dog-eared manuscript inside the battered manila folder. Every instinct tells me that here at last is the big one.‘ But all is…
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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…
An unexpected obituary takes Cliff Hardy on a trip down memory lane to a case he’s been trying to forget for twenty years: oil, fraud, boxing, racing - and murder.
‘Well, what do you know, ’ he said. ‘I’m very pleased to meet up with you at last, sport.’ I leaned back against the door and started into the mocking…
‘She gazed at me with what I took to be adoration. I gave her a light kiss on the lips. Is it better the second time? she said’ Richard Browning…
‘I felt lucky. I was heading for the U.S.A., Hollywood and a million dollars. Deal the cards, Jess, I said.’ But not all the cards dealt to Browning turn up…
‘Howard Hughes nodded approvingly. Mistu Kelly, he said. You and yore buddy sure can fly. It’s been a privilege, suh, to go up with you. ’ After being coerced into…