Cliff Hardy Series by Peter Corris
Cliff Hardy #1
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Cliff Hardy #3
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Cliff Hardy #8
Cliff Hardy #8
CH08 - The Greenwich Apartments
Peter Corris
Is brilliant young filmmaker Carmel Wise the innocent victim of gangland violence or is she enmeshed in a pornography racket as the press and the police imply? Carmel's businessman father hires Cliff Hardy to find the real reason 'the video girl' was shot dead outside the Greenwich Apartments in Kings Cross. Hardy follows a trail which is broken but clear - houses and flats with the power on and the rent paid, stand empty; photographs and other documents lead to Lionel Darcy, owner of the Champagne Cabaret; banks and business houses will supply just enough information to keep Hardy warm. The trail takes him to the sunny peninsula, leafy Lane Cove and the industrial waterfront. Hardy finds that every question and every answer has to be paid for in pain and fear. And to some questions there may be no answers at all...'Indigenous thrillers are better than any others, and the best of all are Peter Corris' accounts of his Sydney private detective, Cliff Hardy.' - Mark Thomas, Canberra Times
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Cliff Hardy #9
CH09 - Deal Me Out
Peter Corris
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 who is missing and searching for adventure. Mountain is the dealer in a deadly game and the hands he deals become more and more bizarre.
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Cliff Hardy #9
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Cliff Hardy #11
Cliff Hardy #12
Cliff Hardy #13
Cliff Hardy #14
Cliff Hardy #15
Cliff Hardy #16
Cliff Hardy #16
CH16 - Burn & Other Stories
Peter Corris
This collection of stories finds Cliff Hardy in his usual milieu of inner Sydney mixing with the good, the bad and the quirky as he works on his cases.With his wisecracks and fists in readiness, Hardy goes about his daily business of tracking delinquent arsonists, hired killers and missing girlfriends, protecting eye surgeons and radio announcers, solving old crimes and helping past acquaintances in the underworld.Always on the outside, but his sympathies with the underdog, Hardy's cases are never what they seem and his solutions are not always what the client expects. All in all, normal time for Cliff Hardy but a great deal more for his readers.
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Cliff Hardy #17
CH17 - Matrimonial Causes
Peter Corris
'Tell me about your first case Cliff. You must remember it.''Sure, but Christ, I haven't thought of that in a long, long time.''What was it about?''Back then? Divorce - what else? But there was a bit of perjury, fraud and murder as well.'The early 70s, and in Cliff Hardy's first case there were perjury, fraud, murder, crooked cops, lawyers, PIs and a call girl - scarcely an honest citizen in sight.Hardy was caught in the middle with a client he couldn't trust and nothing but questions for guidelines. In the end his survival became more important than the answers.
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Cliff Hardy #17
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Cliff Hardy #36
CH36 - Follow the Money
Peter Corris
'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 said, I still
had the moves.'Cliff Hardy may still have the moves but he's in
trouble. The economy's tanking and he's been conned by an unscrupulous
financial advisor and lost everything he's got. Cliff only knows one
way, and that's forward, so he's following the money trail. WC It's a
twisted road that leads him down deep into Sydney's underbelly, into the
territory of big money, bent deals, big yachts and bad people. Cliff's
in greater danger than ever before, but he's as tenacious as a dog with a
bone.
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Cliff Hardy #40
Silent Kill
Peter Corris
Hardy's 40th case finds him bodyguarding a promising politicianWhen Cliff Hardy signs on as a bodyguard for charismatic populist Rory O'Hara, who is about to embark on a campaign of social and political renewal, it looks like a tricky job—O'Hara has enemies. A murder and a kidnapping cause the campaign to fall apart. Hired to investigate the murder, Hardy uncovers hidden agendas among O'Hara's staff and powerful political and commercial forces at work. His investigation takes him from the pubs and brothels of Sydney to the heart of power in Canberra and the Northern Territory. He teams up with a resourceful indigenous private detective and forms an uneasy alliance with the beautiful Penelope Marinos, formerly O'Hara's PA. A rogue intelligence agent becomes his target and Hardy stumbles upon a terrible secret that draws them into a violent—and disturbing—confrontation.
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