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Peter Corris
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…
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‘The godfather of Australian crime fiction.’
‘When beautiful young women kiss you on the cheek you know you’re over the hill, but I didn’t really feel like that. As Wesley…
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…
A collection of gripping short stories in the Cliff Hardy series from highly successful Australian crime fiction writer, Peter Corris.
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.
It is just another party in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, a routine security job for Cliff Hardy. It leads, though, to an interesting meeting and…
Gareth Greenway wasn’t all he seemed, but Cliff Hardy was used to that. What he wasn’t used to was the shadowy world Greenway leads…
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…
Divorce cases are part of a private investigator’s bread and butter, and Cliff Hardy has had his share. This case, though, has a lot…
When Todd Barnes, war veteran and popular drinking mate, leaves Cliff Hardy a tidy sum to find out who killed him, Hardy can hardly…
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…
Australia’s favourite PI, Cliff Hardy is back in a story set against the backdrop of a Federal election campaign.
A fast-paced and entertaining collection of stories featuring Australia’s favourite PI, Cliff Hardy.
A client falls from the twentieth storey of a building; a rock star goes missing; an erotic Mongol scroll vanishes; a film star has…
Cliff Hardy has his hands full with murder, blackmail, embezzlement and more in this new collection of short stories.
Sex, sport and steroids - an explosive mix for Hardy’s 22nd case.
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…
Vintage Cliff Hardy, as Australia s favourite private eye finds himself literally fighting for his life in the murky violent underworld of Bondi.
Lady Catherine presides over the declining fortunes of the Chatterton estate, which is lacking a suitable heir. When she hears of a grandson she…
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…
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…
The indefatigable Cliff Hardy helps out an old police mate with an unresolved case, involving dodgy doctors, an illegitimate child and a violent confrontation.
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…
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’…
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A thrilling novel in the Cliff Hardy series from highly successful Australian crime fiction writer, Peter Corris.
An earthquake in Newcastle leads Hardy to his fourteenth case.
The story of Cliff Hardy’s very first case.
Politics, murder and sex push Hardy to the limit.
A riveting novel in the Cliff Hardy series from highly successful Australian crime fiction writer, Peter Corris.
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…
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 gripping novel tracing the life of Aboriginal boxer and journalist Charlie Thomas from highly successful Australian writer Peter Corris.
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…
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…
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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