Helga's Web

Helga's Web
First UK edition
AuthorJon Cleary
LanguageEnglish
SeriesScobie Malone series
GenreDetective
PublisherCollins (UK)
William Morrow (US)
Publication date
1970
Publication placeAustralia
Preceded byThe High Commissioner 
Followed byRansom 

Helga's Web was a 1970 novel by Australian author Jon Cleary, the second to feature his detective hero Scobie Malone.[1][2]

Cleary did not originally intend to use the character again but wanted to write about the construction of the new Sydney Opera House and thought the detective could be a good way to access that.[3]

Reception

The London Daily Telegraph called it "absorbing to the end."[4]

The Sydney Morning Herald called it a "first class, exciting, immensely readable thriller."[5]

Adaptation

The novel was adapted into a film as Scobie Malone (1975).

References

  1. ^ "Three novels well worth reading". The Canberra Times. 22 August 1970. p. 12. Retrieved 18 October 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. ^ Ruskin, Pamela (12 April 1975). "The little bloke who reached the top". The Age. p. 19.
  3. ^ Jon Cleary Interviewed by Stephen Vagg: Oral History at National Film and Sound Archive
  4. ^ "Criminal records". The Daily Telegraph. 2 July 1970. p. 9.
  5. ^ Pringle, John Douglas (8 August 1970). "A body in the Opera House". The Sydney Morning Herald. p. 22.