Endpeace

Endpeace
First UK edition
Author	Jon Cleary
Country	Australia
Language	English
Series	Scobie Malone
Genre	Detective
Publisher	HarperCollins (UK) William Morrow (US)
Publication date	1996
Preceded by	Winter Chill
Followed by	A Different Turf

Endpeace is a 1996 novel from Australian author Jon Cleary. It was the thirteenth book featuring Sydney detective Scobie Malone.

Plot

The book starts with Scovie attending a dinner party held by a publishing tycoon. During the night the tycoon is shot dead and Scobie has to find the killer.^[1]

Background

As part of his research for the novel, Cleary visited the offices of the Sydney Morning Herald. However, he denied the publishing family in the book was based on the Fairfaxes, who then owned the Herald.^[2]

Reception

Reviewer Stuart Coupe said that, "over recent years Cleary's books have varied in quality but this is a superior effort from an acknowledged master of the genre."^[3]

References

↑ "Endpeace". AustCrimeFiction. Retrieved 2016-04-13.
↑ 'COLUMN 8', Sydney Morning Herald, 3 July 1996 p1
↑ 'Top Shelf', Sunday Age, 17 November 1996 p6

External links

Endpeace at AustLit (subscription required)

Works by Jon Cleary

Novels

1940s	You Can't See 'Round Corners (1947) The Long Shadow (1949)

1950s	Just Let Me Be (1950) The Sundowners (1952) The Climate of Courage (1954) Justin Bayard (1955) The Green Helmet (1957) Back of Sunset (1959) Strike Me Lucky (1959)

1960s	North from Thursday (1960) The Country of Marriage (1962) Forests of the Night (1963) A Flight of Chariots (1963) The Fall of an Eagle (1965) The High Commissioner (1966) The Pulse of Danger (1966) The Long Pursuit (1967) Season of Doubt (1968) Remember Jack Hoxie (1969)

1970s	Helga's Web (1970) Mask of the Andes (1971) Man's Estate (1972) Ransom (1973) The Safe House (1975) Peter's Pence (1975) A Sound of Lightning (1976) High Road to China (1977) Vortex (1978) The Beaufort Sisters (1979)

1980s	A Very Private War (1980) The Faraway Drums (1981) The Golden Sabre (1981) Spearfield's Daughter (1982) The Phoenix Tree (1984) The City of Fading Light (1985) Dragons at the Party (1987) Now and Then, Amen (1988) Babylon South (1989)

1990s	You, the Jury (1990) (reprint of 1950 Just Let Me Be) Murder Song (1990) Pride's Harvest (1991) Dark Summer (1992) Bleak Spring (1993) Autumn Maze (1994) Winter Chill (1995) Endpeace (1996) A Different Turf (1997) Five Ring Circus (1998) Dilemma (1999)

2000s	Bear Pit (2000) Yesterday's Shadow (2001) The Easy Sin (2002) Degrees of Connection (2003) Miss Ambar Regrets (2004) Morning's Gone (2006) Four-Cornered Circle (2007)

Films and TV

Just Let Me Be (1957) (TV)
Dust in the Sun (1958)
The Siege of Pinchgut (1959)
The Sundowners (1960)
The Green Helmet (1961)
Bus Stop (1961) (TV) (2 eps)
Damon and Pythias (1962)
The Diamond Smugglers (1964)
You Can't See 'Round Corners (1967) (TV)
Nobody Runs Forever (The High Commissioner) (1968)
You Can't See 'round Corners (1969)
Sidecar Racers (1975)
High Road to China (1983)
Spearfield's Daughter (1986) (mini series)

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