The ultimate Les Norton collection no.3
CRIME SCENE CESSNOCK Les is back and on the detox … All it took was a summer’s day and a flat tyre on his push-bike, and Les is out on bail and on the run from a gun-happy street gang intent on a drive-by. So, with Warren’s help, Les Norton defendant, becomes Len Gordon film director, safely ensconced at the ultra-swish Opal Springs Health Resort till Eddie can sort things out back in Sydney. Unfortunately, the first thing Les finds on arrival is motivational guru Alexander Holden dead at the front gate. then, before you can say ‘soya beans with tahini and lime dressing’, the cops arrive and Les is up to his neck in a land of a thousand acronyms, fighting off steroid-happy body builders, sex-crazed socialites, violent greyhound owners - and, worst of all, caffeine withdrawals - while at the same time matching wits with the four acrimonious writers-in-residence. Was Alexander Holden murdered? Or was it an accident? Find out in the gripping climax and food fight when all is revealed - in the library. LES NORtON AND tHE CASE OF tHE tALKING PIE CRUSt Les is quite happy resting up after the flu, when Warren has to tip him into an earn. Norton’s mate from the Albanian Mafia, Bodene Menjou, is planning to make the most politically correct movie ever made in Australia, Gone With the Willy Willy, and has a script stolen. If Les can find it, a lazy $50,000 could fall in. How can Norton say no? After almost getting his head blown off in a drug lab, being attacked by crazed women with broomsticks, and beaten up by monstrous drag queens, Les is wondering if it is all worth it. the trip to terrigal and the magical mystery tour with Marla is good. And topaz with her chicken soup is an unexpected delight. But apart from that, Les doesn’t find much joy at all in his search for the missing film script. Especially not trapped in a fight for his life with a sadistic giant, where only one thing can save him: the Mongolian Death Lock. HIGH NOON IN NIMBIN Les Norton is back - and having an overdose. Arranging the hit on Fabio was off tap, and Les knew it. And when you get Sydney’s deadliest killer to do the hit, there’s always a quid pro quo. So Les is off to Nimbin in NSW to help an old army mate of Eddie Salita’s open a bar, the Double L. Ranch. Which suited Les since he had to take his friend tony Nathan the surf photographer to the waxhead wedding of the year at Blueys Beach, and it was on the way. the waxhead wedding of the year turned into the ethnic brawl of the decade. However, Les found comfort in the arms of Janet the Gannet from the Forbidden Planet. In Nimbin, Les found himself working as a DJ for a nutter with a nightclub where dancing was prohibited. He also found racial tension, the Russian Spetsnaz and Norwegian backpackers. Add a drug overdose and, before Les knew it, he found himself in a firefight with a bunch of inbreds wanting to kill the bar owner. A fun town Nimbin wasn’t. Not even for a quarter of a million dollars’ worth of gold.