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Criminal Quirks

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November 1997, no. 196

Forget Me If You Can by Peter Corris

Bantam $14.95pb, 255pp,

Book Cover 2 Small

The Dark Edge by Richard Harland

Pan $14.95pb, 563pp,

Criminal Quirks

by
November 1997, no. 196

Just in case anyone hasn’t head of Cliff Hardy, Peter Corris leads off his new collection of short stories featuring the Sydney private eyes, Forget Me If You Can, with ‘The Hearing’ – an informative little piece in which Hardy, his license suspended, undergoes an interview with a ‘psycho-sociological profiler’ to see if he is a fit and proper person to carry on snooping. In compressed form Corris gives us the essential Hardy: aggressive, cynical, hard-bitten, rude or charming (depending), middle aged, battle-scarred, divorced, ex-smoker, drinks too much, as honest as the job allows. You get a good sense of the man’s strengths and weaknesses, most of which are expanded on in the dozen stories that follow.

J.R. Carroll reviews 'Forget Me If You Can' by Peter Corris and 'The Dark Edge' by Richard Harland

Forget Me If You Can

by Peter Corris

Bantam $14.95pb, 255pp,

Book Cover 2 Small

The Dark Edge

by Richard Harland

Pan $14.95pb, 563pp,

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