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- Author
- Jon Cleary
- First published
- 1973
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Morrow, Collins, Fontana Press
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780002216944
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Jon Stephen Cleary was an Australian writer and novelist. He wrote numerous books, including The Sundowners (1951), a portrait of a rural family in the 1920s as they move from one job to the next, and The High Commissioner (1966), the first of a long series of popular detective fiction works featuring Sydney Police Inspector Scobie Malone. A number of Cleary's works have been the subject of film and television adaptations.
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