The Dragon Man

Author:   Garry Disher
Publisher:   Soho Crime
ISBN:  

9781569473955


Pages:   239
Publication Date:   01 July 2005
Format:   Paperback
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Meet Hal Challis, Detective for the Mornington Peninsula police force in Southeast Australia, in the first investigation in this prize-winning crime series A serial killer is on the loose in a small coastal town near Melbourne, Australia. Detective Inspector Hal Challis and his team must apprehend him before he strikes again. But first, Challis has to contend with the editor of a local newspaper who undermines his investigation at every turn, and with his wife, who attempts to resurrect their marriage through long-distance phone calls from a sanitarium, where she has been committed for the past eight years for attempted murder-- his.

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Author:   Garry Disher
Publisher:   Soho Crime
Imprint:   Soho Crime
Dimensions:   Width: 11.90cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 18.10cm
Weight:   0.240kg
ISBN:  

9781569473955


ISBN 10:   1569473951
Pages:   239
Publication Date:   01 July 2005
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Praise for The Dragon Man A straightforward police story with a terrific plot, nuanced characters and solid procedures, served up on refreshing new turf. --Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review A first-rate piece of crime writing. -- The Washington Post Book World Colorful . . . Disher has literary talent and imagination. -- Chicago Tribune Disher makes his characters as interesting as his plot. -- Portsmouth Herald A police procedural of a very different kind . . . A 'down under' atmosphere that most American readers will find unique. -- The Plain Dealer The American debut for Australian crime writer extraordinaire Disher is as complex and dark as anything by Ian Rankin or Michael Connelly. -- Las Vegas Mercury Disher delivers an intelligent, atmospheric police procedural . . . Fans of such gritty yet cerebral crime novelists as Ian Rankin and Jack Harvey should be well pleased. -- Publishers Weekly This series debut from the prolific Disher ( The Sunken Road , 1996, etc.) doesn't read like one, thanks to fully formed characters and wall-to-wall mysteries. The offbeat setting's a bonus for US readers. -- Kirkus Reviews


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Garry Disher is one of Australia's best-known novelists. He's published over forty books in a range of genres, including crime, children's books, and Australian history. Another mystery in the Inspector Hal Challis series, Chain of Evidence, won the Ned Kelly Award for best Australian crime novel. His Wyatt crime series are also published in the US by Soho Crime. He lives on the Mornington Peninsula, southeast of Melbourne.

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