Известный автор Джон Клири представляет новый роман с участием сыщика из Сиднея Скоби Малоуна. Инспектора Малоуна приглашают расследовать загадочную смерть японского промышленника, чей завод принес процветание, но и напряжение в небольшой австралийский городок.
В городке Колламундра обнаружен труп японского управляющего хлопковой фабрикой Кенджи Сагавы в молотилке его же завода. Хотя компания принесла благосостояние в этот небольшой городок, она также породила расовую напряженность. Детектив-инспектор Скоби Малоун из сиднейской полиции приглашен расследовать это дело – едва ли это можно назвать отпуском.
Местные коррумпированные чиновники и правоохранители невзлюбили его, а коренное население аборигенов становится всё более враждебным. Когда единственный полицейский из аборигенов становится мишенью для недовольства всех, Скоби начинает сочувствовать ему – и всё больше вникать в давнее нераскрытое убийство жены самого известного жителя Колламундры семнадцать лет назад.
По мере того, как всё больше людей съезжаются в этот засушливый городок на ежегодные скачки, список подозреваемых становится всё длиннее и длиннее... Сможет ли приезжий Малоун раскрыть это дело?
Pride's Harvest by Jon Cleary is a novel featuring the adventures of Sydney Detective Scobie Malone."In the grimy town of the forgotten middlewestern Australian state of Queensland, a white detective from Sydney answers a call to investigate when one of the richest businessmen of modern times mysteriously disappears."As Malone tangles in secrets he wasn't meant to probe, rural resentment build around him, and when scandals happen on his very own doorstep he finds his investigation part of an intrigue of political corruption at the highest levels."More and More Dead People" states the nation's best-selling author. "People flee the country too late," the novel's characters tell Malone as policies of indifference and bureaucratic inefficiency swirl increasingly into view."Pride's Harvest won the 2015 Miles Franklin Literary Award for Fiction and shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards for Crime and Horror. You can also read the book on audio."Pride" features Jon Cleary's distinctive brand of colourful character and narrative adventure, combining elements of murder mystery, historical fiction and crime drama."There's no saving those thrown away, I think, says Malone as the past and the present mix to trap the people of mill town in a tragic circle of colonial history and corruption."Cleary worked in the Canberra press corps before becoming a full-time writer and is married to novelist Sara Maitland."It's Adelaide-born Cleary in iconic Australian gear who tells this tale of disregarded humanity and bitter ratcheting frustration, concludes Mr Purcell.
Электронная Книга «Pride’s Harvest» написана автором Jon Cleary в году.
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Язык: Английский
ISBN: 9780007554225
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From the award-winning Jon Cleary, a novel featuring Sydney detective Scobie Malone. Inspector Scobie Malones is called in to investigate the mysterious death of a Japanese industrialist whose factory has brought prosperity, but also tension, to a rural backwater in AustraliaIn the town of Collamundra, Australia, the corpse of Japanese farm manager Kenji Sagawa is found in one of his cotton mill’s threshing machines. The prosperity that his company had brought to the small town had also engendered racial tension, and the Detective Inspector Scobie Malone of the Sydney Police Department is called in to investigate – hardly a vacation.The local corrupt government and law enforcement resent him, and the Aboriginal population gets ever more restless. When the only Aboriginal police officer becomes the target of everyone’s frustration, Scobie becomes increasingly sympathetic – as well as increasingly involved with the cold murder case of the wife of Collamundra’s most famous citizen seventeen years prior.As more and more people flock to this dry town for its annual horse race, the list of suspects becomes longer and longer… Can Malone the visitor crack the case?
