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"The wild folk in Pleasant Valley were whispering strange stories to one another. If the stories were true, they were most amazing.

A detective thriller set in Sydney and introducing Cliff Hardy, private investigator, who is paid to unravel problems the police can't or won't handle.

Even when he's not involved in a major case, PI Cliff Hardy's life is far from routine.

John Gulliver, fly-by-night publisher, leaves Britain for Australia with his family, in 1910. Aboard ship catastrophe strikes and they are scattered with a famous painting their only link.

It's only 24 hours into a new case and PI Cliff Hardy's already been heavied; you know that the job is going to get his full attention.

When Barnes Todd is killed in a car smash south of Sydney, people are lining up to say how sorry they are. But Cliff Hardy, private investigator, soon discovers the accident was really murder.

Sacked by the Federal Security Agency, Crawley plays dangerous games in the Melbourne underworld.

Someone's trying to cancel Cliff Hardy's licence, and he needs to find out why.

When Oscar Bach's body was found crushed under rubble, his death was classified as another tragic statistic of the Newcastle earthquake.

All Browning expects is to go through the motions of making a propaganda film.

This humorous novel is set against the backdrop of Hollywood in the 1920's and follows the adventures of actor Richard Browning as he gets caught between the FBI and the Ku Klux Klan, and make

Crawley's misgivings about the validity of his mission to a South Pacific island prove well founded as he fights to escape with his life.

Arthur Scott Bailey (1877 – 1949) was the author of more than forty children’s books. “Mr.

Have you ever seen a LadyBug and wondered what the cute little bug with the dots on her back was thinking? And why she seemed in such a rush?