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'When Rodney Collins, spokesperson for the environmental group SLUDGE (Sea Life Under Danger of Gradual Extinction) dies in a draining accident the police call it 'Death by Misadventure'. But Barry Donovan isn't so sure. Only days before, Collins had hired him to investigate a possible infiltration of SLUDGE. Coincidences like that just didn't happen. But why would anyone want to murder the mild-mannered spokesperson of a harmless environmental group? SLUDGE's anti-pollution lobbying couldn't be winning them too many friends in a big business and government, but surely the grouop wasn't that much of a threat? As Donovan digs deeper he realises that the murder of Rodney Collins is just a drop in the ocean compared to what else is going on. And the planet isn't the only thing in danger of extinction...'
Source : Austcrimefiction.org
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1991
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— Appears in: The Newcastle Herald , 14 September 1991; (p. 16)
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— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 28 April 1991; (p. 27)
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— Appears in: Mean Streets : A Quarterly Journal of Crime, Mystery and Detection , February no. 2 1991; (p. 59)
— Review of A Drop in the Ocean 1991 single work novel -
Guilt Edge
1991
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— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December-January (1991-1992) no. 137 1991; (p. 51-52)
— Review of More Crimes for a Summer Christmas 1991 anthology short story ; A Drop in the Ocean 1991 single work novel -
Crime
1991
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— Appears in: The Age , 14 September 1991; (p. 8)
— Review of Flood Rain 1991 single work novel ; A Drop in the Ocean 1991 single work novel
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Into the Mean Sydney Streets Slides Slippery Syd
1991
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— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 24-25 August 1991; (p. rev 5)
— Review of Shaved Fish 1990 selected work short story ; A Drop in the Ocean 1991 single work novel ; The Siberian Sparrows 1990 single work novel ; Larry Death 1991 single work novel -
Legitimate Cribbing
1991
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— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 130 1991; (p. 35-36)
— Review of The Siberian Sparrows 1990 single work novel ; Red on White 1991 single work novel ; A Drop in the Ocean 1991 single work novel -
Crime
1991
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— Appears in: The Age , 14 September 1991; (p. 8)
— Review of Flood Rain 1991 single work novel ; A Drop in the Ocean 1991 single work novel -
Guilt Edge
1991
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review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December-January (1991-1992) no. 137 1991; (p. 51-52)
— Review of More Crimes for a Summer Christmas 1991 anthology short story ; A Drop in the Ocean 1991 single work novel -
Forecasts
1990
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— Appears in: Australian Bookseller & Publisher , December-January (1990-1991) vol. 70 no. 1011 1990; (p. 16)
— Review of Only One Adam 1991 single work novel ; A Drop in the Ocean 1991 single work novel
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