Peter Corris's Cliff Hardy was a genuine Australian international crime fiction hero
- Written by Stephen Knight, Honorary Research Professor, University of Melbourne
Australian crime fiction author Peter Corris published 102 novels in lifetimes, including 52 centred on the private investigator Cliff Hardy. ALLEN AND UNWIN
Peter Corris, author of the Cliff Hardy novels, died on August 30 2018 age 76.
By the 1970s Australian crime fiction was drifting.
The genre had a long history, back to convict days, when it...
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