Taking Care of Business: Cliff Hardy 28 by Peter Corris (Epub)

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I was starting to get interested. As someone who thinks stockmarkets, futures trading and currency speculation ought to be illegal, I was aware that I was radically out of step with the times. I dimly grasped what Marriott was saying, enough to understand that it sounded like being allowed into the mint with a U-haul van.’

Cliff Hardy is no financial genius. But in Taking Care of Business he pursues white collar crime with the same doggedness he applies to his more downmarket villains.

Hardy’s tasks are many and his clients are from all walks of life. He is minder for Thomas Whitney, the highly strung whistle blower, whose company is siphoning money off through Vanuatu. He is hired by computer genius Charles Marriott, whose shady dot com partner wants control of the business and is letting nothing and no one get in his way. And ever keen for some spare cash, he even takes a case from Spiro, his local florist, whose son seems to be involved in some very dodgy business involving tobacco and big bucks.

This collection of stories featuring Australia’s favourite PI is fast-paced and entertaining. It reads in the best Corris style.

Hardy is a wonderful creation still, under Corris’s magisterial narrative control, capable of those odd echoes and resonances, the elegiac interludes that characterise the best crime writing.’ Graeme Blundell, The Weekend Australian

There has been no more efficient, entertaining and amusing writer of detective thrillers in Australia than Peter Corris.’ The Age

User’s Reviews

From Booklist For readers not yet familiar with Australian detective Cliff Hardy, the North American release of this story collection offers an excellent opportunity to meet one of the more engaging sleuths on the international beat. Taking Care of Business is a collection of short stories in which Hardy investigates a case of possible insurance fraud, chases a key witness in a murder trial, takes a job as a bodyguard, looks into a rash of petty crime during the Christmas season, and tackles sundry other seemingly routine cases. Readers familiar with the long-running Hardy series will not be surprised to learn that none of the cases here are as simple as they first appear, or to discover that Hardy’s resourcefulness apparently knows no bounds. The stories are uniformly strong, proving that Corris is as proficient with the short form as he is in a full-length novel. David PittCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Reviews from Amazon users, collected at the time the book is getting published on UniedVRG. It can be related to shiping or paper quality instead of the book content:

⭐ I’ve been reading the Cliff Hardy books since they first appeared in America, and liked them enough to search out the Australian first editions for my collection. It’s an excellent series for those looking for an Australian version of the American hard-boiled detective. This book is no exception – another solid entry in a long-running, wonderful series.

⭐ I had already read some of the other Cliff Hardy cases and enjoyed them, just as I did these ones. His type of hard-boiled private detective reminds me of the old school, Hammet and Chandler-style: tough, honnest, and straight to the point. A bit like Michael Connolly’s Hieronymus Bosch but with a bit of humor to lighten the mood. The stories themselves are easy to follow and quite satisfying, and the setting in Australia adds originality.

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