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Peter Corris
A selection of stories featuring Australia’s favourite PI, plus unpublished writing by Peter Corris on crime.
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Still reeling from the shock death of his partner, Cliff suffers a heart attack - but this isn’t enough to keep him from investigating the disappearance of the father of…
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The second novel in the Cliff Hardy series, being re-released in a new package to celebrate the publication of the fortieth Cliff Hardy book.
Semi-retired. De-licensed. But Cliff Hardy is once again fighting for justice and tracking down evil when his cousin is brutally murdered - did the shotgun blast find its target, or…
Battle-scarred but indefatigable PI, Cliff Hardy has lost all his dough to an unscrupulous financial advisor. He’s got to follow the money trail deep into Sydney’s underbelly into the territory…
Cliff Hardy revisits an unsolved case from the 1980s. Twenty years later, can he crack the one that got away?
Private Investigator Cliff Hardy’s 39th case sees him leaving the mean streets of Sydney for Newcastle, investigating what a famous 19th century shipwreck has to do with a multi-million dollar…
How does a simple car accident suddenly become a murder?
The sixth novel in the Cliff Hardy series, being re-released in a new package to celebrate the publication of the fortieth Cliff Hardy book.
The eleventh book in the Cliff Hardy series, being re-released in a new package to celebrate the publication of the fortieth Cliff Hardy book.
The seventh book in the Cliff Hardy series, being re-released in a new package to celebrate the publication of the fortieth Cliff Hardy book.
In the fortieth Cliff Hardy book, Hardy plays a cool hand as a decades-old crime resurfaces and old scores are settled.
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…
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The third novel in the Cliff Hardy series, being re-released in a new package to celebrate the publication of the fortieth Cliff Hardy book.
Richard Browning, an Australian actor in Hollywood during World War II, is down on his luck. He is running a small detective agency. A missing-person case takes him into Chinatown…
This sixth Browning adventure tells how Browning escapes the Japanese, and finds himself in trouble in wartime Sydney. Other titles in the Browning series include ‘Box Office’ Browning , Beverly…
Cliff Hardy has his PI licence back - but does he still have what it takes to cut it on the mean streets of Sydney? Cliff reckons the skills are…
This wasn’t Hardy’s usual brief - uncover the mysteries of a nineteenth - century shipwreck - but he could do with an easy case and the retainer was generous. But…
Cliff Hardy is in trouble. The economy’s tanking and he’s been conned by an unscrupulous financial advisor. Cliff only knows one way, and that’s forward, so he’s following the money…
Is Sydney gun city? It certainly seems so when Cliff Hardy is hired by entrepreneur and one-time pistol-shooting champion Timothy Greenhall to investigate the violent death of his troubled son.
‘She gazed at me with what I took to be adoration. I gave her a light kiss on the lips. Is it better the second time? she said’ Richard Browning…
‘I felt lucky. I was heading for the U.S.A., Hollywood and a million dollars. Deal the cards, Jess, I said.’ But not all the cards dealt to Browning turn up…
‘Howard Hughes nodded approvingly. Mistu Kelly, he said. You and yore buddy sure can fly. It’s been a privilege, suh, to go up with you. ’ After being coerced into…
‘Well, what do you know, ’ he said. ‘I’m very pleased to meet up with you at last, sport.’ I leaned back against the door and started into the mocking…
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…
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…
Australia’s favourite PI, Cliff Hardy is back in a story set against the backdrop of a Federal election campaign.
The indefatigable Cliff Hardy helps out an old police mate with an unresolved case, involving dodgy doctors, an illegitimate child and a violent confrontation.
Dirty dealings, corrupt cops, computer geeks and a final showdown at an exclusive Sydney beach - is this Cliff Hardy’s last adventure?
Cliff Hardy always finds it hard to turn down a job, but in the case of Paula Wilberforce he should have followed his instincts. Against his better judgement, he becomes…
Private investigator Cliff Hardy is nothing if not versatile, and this collection of his cases sees him mixing with the good, the bad and the quirky. He tracks delinquent arsonists…
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…
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…
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.
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 on a dubious case - a…
A fast-paced and entertaining collection of stories featuring Australia’s favourite PI, Cliff Hardy.
Cliff Hardy has his hands full with murder, blackmail, embezzlement and more in this new collection of short stories.
Australia’s best-known private investigator, Cliff Hardy, might have his licence back but does he still have what it takes to cut it as a PI on its seedy streets?
An unexpected obituary takes Cliff Hardy on a trip down memory lane to a case he’s been trying to forget for twenty years: oil, fraud, boxing, racing - and murder.
In this gripping novel from highly successful Australian crime fiction writer Peter Corris, Cliff Hardy’s reluctant status as ‘security consultant’ to a politician takes him to Washington DC where the…
Will one man’s loss be Hardy’s gain? ‘I’d read about it in the papers, heard the radio reports and seen the TV coverage and then forgotten about it, the way…
One case still haunts Hardy Legendary PI Cliff Hardy has reached an age when the obituaries have become part of his reading, and one triggers his memory of a case…
An earthquake in Newcastle leads Hardy to his fourteenth case.
First published by Bantam Books, a division of Transworld Publishers, in 1993 –Title page verso.
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…
