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Get Rich Quick First American Edition
Author(s): Peter Doyle (Author)
- Publisher: Dark Passage
- Publication Date: October 4, 2004
- Edition: First American
- Language: English
- Print length: 256 pages
- ISBN-10: 189124115X
- ISBN-13: 9781891241154
Book Description
‘I didn’t spot the body until I was about to dive in. He was floating face down, the water around him streaked with red. He looked like William Holden in that film, except this fellow was big, and he wasn t talking about how he got there’ — Meet Billy Glasheen, a fresh new voice in crime fiction. It’s Sydney, the 1950s, and Billy’s trying to make a living, any way he can. Luckily, he’s a likeable guy, with a gift for masterminding elaborate scenarios whether it’s a gambling scam, transporting a fortune in stolen jewels, or keeping the wheels greased during the notorious down-under tour by Little Richard and his rock’n’roll entourage. But trouble follows close behind perhaps because Billy’s schemes always seem to interfere with the plans of Sydney’s big players, an unholy trinity of crooks, bent cops, and politicians on the make. Suddenly he’s in the frame for murder, and on the run from the police, who’ll happily send him down for it. Billy’s no sleuth, but there’s nowhere to turn for help. To prove it wasn’t him, he ll have to find the real killer.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Think of a hopped-up James M. Cain. –Kirkus Reviews
If Elmore Leonard came from down under, his name would be Peter Doyle. –Kinky Friedman
Peter Doyle does for Sydney what Carl Hiaasen does for Miami. –Shane Maloney
About the Author
Peter Doyle was born in Maroubra, in Sydney’s eastern suburbs. He worked as a taxi driver, musician, and teacher before writing Get Rich Quick, which won the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Crime Novel in 1997. His next book, Amaze Your Friends, won the Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Novel in 1998, followed in 2001 by The Devil s Jump. Doyle has lived in Sydney all his life and knows the city (especially its murky past) like few others. In recent years he has spent countless hours cataloging the photo archives of the Sydney police department, from which he assembled and edited the acclaimed collection of mug shots and crime scenes, City of Shadows: Sydney Police Photographs 1912-1948.
