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Crime wave in Aussie publishing: Editors baffled

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July 1988, no. 102

Deep Gold by Arthur Maher

Bantam, 298 pp, $8.95 pb

Book 2 Cover Small (400 x 600)

Seven Miles from Sydney by Lesley Thomson

Pandora, 205 pp, $9.95 pb

Crime wave in Aussie publishing: Editors baffled

by
July 1988, no. 102

Ignored by literary historians, consumed quietly by the reading public, Australian crime fiction has been evident enough to readers of Miller and MacCartney’s classic bibliography, and restates its bloodied but unbowed presence in two forthcoming reference tools: Margaret Murphy’s Bibliography of Women Writers in Australia, many of whom write thrillers, and in Allen J. Hubin’s near-future third edition of his international bibliography of crime fiction, in which Michael Tolley of the University of Adelaide will exhaustively update and correct the Australian entries.

Stephen Knight reviews nine crime novels

Deep Gold

by Arthur Maher

Bantam, 298 pp, $8.95 pb

Book 2 Cover Small (400 x 600)

Seven Miles from Sydney

by Lesley Thomson

Pandora, 205 pp, $9.95 pb

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