Casino: Cliff Hardy 18 by Peter Corris (HTML)

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Casinos are not to Cliff Hardy’s liking, nor is wearing a suit and tie, which is why he turns down the job of head of security at a new Sydney gambling establishment. However, when his friend Scott Galvani takes the job and is then murdered, Hardy feels bound to investigate in the face of police indifference. He takes the security job, meets the attractive but unpredictable Vita Drewe, and adds to his list of enemies.

Galvani’s killers are closer to home than Hardy anticipated and his life and his relationship are on the line.

User’s Reviews

Peter Corris is best known as the godfather of Australian crime fiction and the author of Cliff Hardy detective stories. He is also the author of A Round of Golf: 18 Holes with Peter Corris and the coauthor of Fred Hollows: An Autobiography. –This text refers to the paperback edition.

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⭐ Cliff Hardy is a hard-boiled detective with a love for Sydney, my old hometown. He is a private investigator who ekes out a living on minor, normally low-paying, cases. Hardy is a borderline alcoholic, drives an old Falcon with almost bald tires, and always seems to have luck in seducing the ladies – but his relationships don’t last long.Cliff is really down on his heels when he is approached by the manager of a new casino in Sydney to take up a 12-month contract to run their security. Hardy turns down the contract because he feels he is far too independent to knuckle down to a full-time job with big responsibilities. He recommends one of his friends Scott Galvani who would be a perfect fit for such a job.A few weeks into the job Galvani is murdered and leaves behind a young family. Hardy is devastated and after police indifference in finding the killer he decides to investigate himself. To do so he takes the security job for a short time while a replacement can move from the US so that he can work out what may have happened. There he meets and has a short relationship with attractive but unpredictable Vita Drewe. Things get increasingly dangerous as he finds out more about what Galvani had uncovered.This is #18 in Peter Corris’s excellent series about Cliff Hardy which he has written over the last 35 years. They are all satisfying light thrillers and I plan to keep reading more in the series when I need a break from my normal diet of heavier thrillers and historical literary fiction.

⭐ A real page turner. If you like your crime with a well developed sense of being set in Sydney this is for you. Peter Corris really knows Sydney and can paint a word picture with just a few strokes of the keyboard. The writing style is clipped, a bit reminiscent of Chandler, and this helps maintain the pace. The ending is, perhaps, a bit too neat but then this is not great lit. It is great entertainment, an enjoyable passage of a couple of hours.

⭐ Probably not my favourite Cliff Hardy book but still a very enjoyable read. I mistakenly thought this was a new release when I purchased it but it turned out to be an older book that I’d never read. Always interesting to go back in time through the eyes of Cliff Hardy!

⭐ This novella is as tightly plotted as any of Corris’s best yarns. In this format one can’t expect characters to be roundly developed, but the stereotypes are always remodelled to be believable. A first class read.

⭐ I have read quite a number of the Cliff Hardy series and truly enjoy them but unfortunately Casino is down the bottom of my list. I felt the story was rushed and lacked the usual flow Peter Corris mastered in his other books. I’ll still look forward to reading more Cliff Hardy adventures, regardless….as long as other books are as good as previously written.

⭐ Another great read from Peter. The plot was not too complex and kept moving.The principle character Cliff Hardy is a bit of a loser but he’s the sort of bloke you can’t help but like!

⭐ The title of this book suggested more than a confusing detective story. I was somewhat disappointed.

⭐ See previous reviews.Diane

⭐ Cliff Hardy, what a guy

⭐ A good Aussie detective story

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