Dying Trade, The [Mass Market Paperback]

Peter Corris (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: Pan Books; 1st Printing edition (1982)
• ISBN-10: 0330270206
• ISBN-13: 978-0330270205
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Hard boiled Private eye set in Sydney; first in great series, December 4, 1998

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This review is from: The Dying Trade (Mass Market Paperback)

For fans of Chandler and Hammett, here is a contemporary writer who is a worthy follower. "The Dying Trade" is the first in a 20+ series featuring Sydney, Australia, private detective Cliff Hardy, who observes the wealthy and the underworld with humourous.

All of the series entries are very good; this first is excellent.

Although you can certainly love the book without knowing Sydney, those who have been will enjoy Corris' excellent sense of place. I like mysteries as, among other things, a substitute for travel, and this one will bring you down under.

3.0 out of 5 stars Cliff Hardy's debut, February 16, 2010

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This review is from: The Dying Trade (Mass Market Paperback)

If you're a fan of hard-boiled PI stories--think Spenser and Travis McGee--and you don't know Australia's Cliff Hardy... Well, you're in for a treat. Peter Corris has written over 30 of these tough, gritty Cliff Hardy adventures and they just get better and better. This debut story is actually one of the weaker ones. But if you want to begin at the beginning, this is it. The books are generally available only in Australian editions, but they can all be tracked down on Amazon or other book seller sites.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fast, lean, no cheap plot devices., August 19, 1999

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This review is from: The Dying Trade (Mass Market Paperback)

Great collection. The nice thing about Corris is he uses hisspare style with aplomb. The details are used to just the rightaffect. His series isn't much on violence either. Often he's just looking for missing persons and not tripping over corpses.