Stiff - Hardcover

Maloney, Shane

3.78

669 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1559704810 ISBN 13: 9781559704816

Publisher: Arcade Publishing, 1999

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A thrilling new mystery for Australia's Murray Whelan finds the wisecracking, and sometimes rather unwilling, sleuth up to his neck in sleazy union politics, planted drugs, neo-fascists, and a good deal of other imminent dangers. 10,000 first printing.

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About the Author:

Shane Maloney, winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Fiction, is also the author of The Brush-Off, Nice Try, and The Big Ask. He is a newspaper columnist in Melbourne.

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It's no skin off Murray Whelan's nose when gargantuan Ekrem Bayraktar, shift supervisor at the Pacific Pastoral meat-packing plant in Coolaroo, is found squeezed among the higher-grade meats in Pacific's #3 freezer. But when you're the electorate officer serving the constituents of Charlene Wills, Australia's Minister for Industry, you never know which constituents may need service. Soon, Charlene's Machiavellian adviser Angelo Agnelli is hissing that Murray (The Brush-Off, 1998) needs to investigate the possibility of labor discontents at the Pacific Pastoral plant in order to keep rising municipal councillor Joe Collicato from challenging Charlene. It's a circuitous route to an investigation, but once Murray discovers that Bayraktar's crew included the Turkish equivalents of Robert Redford and Santa Claus, nothing can pull him off the scentnot his impending divorce and child-custody suit; not his budding friendship with Ayisha Celik, of the Australian Turkish Welfare League; not the episodes in which his house gets broken into and he nearly gets run down by somebody driving Bayraktar's car; and certainly not the unsought and comically premature confession he hears to Bayraktar's murder. Americans willing to take in the dirty linen of the political system Down Under will come away with a middling mystery, some finely honed action scenes, and an earful of Maloney's lovely epitomes of the Australian Labor Party, ``an organization which, next to itself, loves the working man best.'' -- Copyright �1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

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