From the winner of the Shamus Crime Fiction Award for the best PI paperback. 'Terminal illness. Terminal containers. I'd seen one yesterday: Mark's coffin. Transported from this world into the next. I wondered about the contents of these huge containers, wondered how many kilos of heroin were down there right this minute.' Mark Banister, writing 'the bestseller of the century' is found dead at his computer - the victim of a murder so perfect that Claudia Valentine smells a rat...and wants it caught. The chase leads deep into the murky underworld of Sydney - a world where bright, tough Claudia must play a deadly high-tech game of cat and rat with the menacing overlord of the city's cancerous network of crime and corruption. Witty, wryly humorous and fast-paced, The Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender is a thriller with a twist, which brilliantly evokes the sleaze below the surface of the city's glittering facade. 'Claudia is full of energy, wit...and a disdain for the pretentious.' The Canberra Times 'Marele Day's Claudia Valentine is fast becoming my favourite detective...' Newcastle Herald '...in M
- ISBN10 1856952908
- ISBN13 9781856952903
- Publish Date May 1996 (first published 1 October 1988)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 July 1998
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher ISIS Publishing
- Imprint ISIS Large Print Books
- Edition Large type / large print edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 300
- Language English