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Helga's Web

Book by Jon Cleary

Summary

Book by Jon Cleary

Field	Value
name	Helga's Web
image	File:HelgasWeb.jpg
caption	First UK edition
author	Jon Cleary
country	Australia
language	English
series	Scobie Malone series
genre	Detective
publisher	Collins (UK)
William Morrow (US)
release_date	1970
preceded_by	The High Commissioner
followed_by	Ransom

William Morrow (US) Helga's Web was a 1970 novel by Australian author Jon Cleary, the second to feature his detective hero Scobie Malone.

Cleary did not originally intend to use the character again but wanted to write about the construction of the new Sydney Opera House and thought the detective could be a good way to access that.

Reception

The London Daily Telegraph called it "absorbing to the end."

The Sydney Morning Herald called it a "first class, exciting, immensely readable thriller."

Adaptation

The novel was adapted into a film as Scobie Malone (1975).

References

(22 August 1970). "Three novels well worth reading.". [[The Canberra Times]].
Ruskin, Pamela. (12 April 1975). "The little bloke who reached the top". The Age.
[https://archive.today/20121130060212/http://colsearch.nfsa.gov.au/nfsa/search/display/display.w3p;adv=;group=;groupequals=;holdingType=;page=0;parentid=;query=vagg%20cleary;querytype=;rec=0;resCount=10 Jon Cleary Interviewed by Stephen Vagg: Oral History] at [[National Film and Sound Archive]]
(2 July 1970). "Criminal records". The Daily Telegraph.
Pringle, John Douglas. (8 August 1970). "A body in the Opera House". The Sydney Morning Herald.

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