The Dunbar Case (Cliff Hardy series) - Softcover

Corris, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1743310226 ISBN 13: 9781743310229

Publisher: Allen & Unwin, 2013

Synopsis

PI Cliff Hardy's 39th case sees him investigating what a famous 19th century shipwreck has to do with a multi-million dollar heist featuring a cast of characters that shouldn't be trusted

The idea of enjoying creeping along an underground alley in half-light was alien to me. But the secret of getting things done is to do them and not waste energy complaining.

A famous 19th-century shipwreck, a search for lost documents, a two-million dollar heist, a Newcastle criminal family tearing itself apart, an undercover cop playing both sides against the middle, and an alluring but fiercely ambitious female journalist give Cliff Hardy all the trouble he can handle. What started as an almost academic exercise—tracing lost documents to do with the 1857 wreck of the SS Dunbar—explodes into a here-and-now power struggle between criminals, police, lovers, and unseen forces. The first person Hardy interviews is shot dead and the body count mounts as he pushes closer to the truth about the people, the documents, and the loot.

About this title

About the Author:

Peter Corris is best known as the godfather of Australian crime fiction and the author of Cliff Hardy detective stories. He is also the author of A Round of Golf: 18 Holes with Peter Corris and the coauthor of Fred Hollows: An Autobiography.

From Booklist:

It’s been a few years since Australian PI Cliff Hardy got his license back. He’s still getting back up to speed when a university professor approaches him with a mystery involving the century-and-a-half-old wreck of a luxury liner. Cliff figures it should be smooth sailing, but, as fans of the long-running Hardy series know, Cliff’s cases have a tendency to get real complicated, real quick. What starts out as a mostly research job (Cliff is trying to find out if there was a previously unrecorded survivor of the wreck and whether the survivor’s descendant, a man named Twizell, might know anything about some jewels that were on board the ship) turns into a potentially dangerous situation involving a powerful crime figure (whose daughter, it seems, Twizell brutally assaulted and for which assault he’s currently in prison, although he’ll happily provide information on his ancestor in exchange for parole). This series debuted nearly 35 years ago, and, despite its being relatively little known in the U.S., you won’t find too many mystery series that run this long with such consistently high quality. --David Pitt

About this edition

• Publisher: Allen & Unwin
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1743310226
• ISBN 13: 9781743310229
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 248