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y separately published work icon Peepshow Leigh Redhead , Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2004 Z1142804 2004 single work novel detective A sassy, sexy and funny novel introducing Simone Kirsch (aka Vivien Leigh), stripper and PI, who is determined to find the real killer of strip club owner, Frank Parisi. (Source: Publisher's blurb)
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y separately published work icon Rubdown Leigh Redhead , Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2005 Z1204771 2005 single work novel crime detective

Simone Kirsch, P.I. has given up stripping and is trying to be straight. But she can never stay straight for long. Simone is hired by prominent lawyer Emery Wade, to find his wayward daughter Tamara. She's been taking drugs and working in the sex industry and Daddy fears a scandal that will affect not just his reputation, but that of her AFL-hotshot brother and his soap-star fiancee. When Simone finds Tamara dead the coroner says suicide. But Lulu, Tammy's best friend from the parlour, is convinced it's murder. Tangling with a drug dealer, a sleazy brothel owner and a bizarre love quadrangle with three coppers, time is running out for Simone to get to the bottom of it all before someone tries to keep her quiet too. A criminally witty romp on the sexy side of the mean streets.

- Publisher's blurb
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y separately published work icon Cherry Pie Leigh Redhead , Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2007 Z1360741 2007 single work novel detective The Simone Kirsch Detective Agency - it has a ring to it that Simone loves. And she's willing to bump, grind and shimmy until she has enough money to make it happen. But nothing ever really runs quite to plan for Simone. Andi Fowler, a childhood friend and now journalism student, turns up at the strip joint in need of a detective yet unwilling to tell Simone anything more than she's got something explosively big on someone in hospitality. And the whole frenetically fast, chaotically connected case starts from there. By the next afternoon, Andi's vanished mysteriously. Restaurant corruption, an insane celebrity chef, an untraceable possum head, a conveniently absent boyfriend and a surprising amount of family history aside, Simone still has to deal with her continuing desire for Alex, her favourite policeman, while racing the clock in her desperate search for Andi. - back cover
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y separately published work icon Thrill City Leigh Redhead , Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2010 Z1693510 2010 single work novel crime

'Simone Kirsch, ex-stripper, sleuth and bad girl, is back in business - and before she has time to crack a bottle of cheap champagne to celebrate the opening of her very own detective agency, she's up to her neck in lethal fun and games.

'It all starts off quite innocently, when a best-selling crime novelist, Nick Austin, wants to follow her around for a few days as background research for his next novel. But the day after he, his ex-wife and her new lover all appear on the same panel at a writers festival, his ex-wife is found brutally murdered and Nick disappears, leaving Simone with more trouble than she can handle.

'While she can take murderous bikies, desperate publishers, poetry slams and a crystal meth-addicted psycho killer with literary ambitions in her stride, Simone is also juggling her very pregnant and possibly hormonally unbalanced best friend, Chloe; her ongoing attraction to ex-cop, Alex; and her boyfriend, Sean, who wants her to give up her agency and move to Vietnam.

'All up, life is complicated - not to mention the fact that she's facing the toughest, most dangerous case of her career.' (From the publisher's website.)

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'Tart Noir' : Erotica or Pornography? Tony Smith , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: AQ : Australian Quarterly , July-August vol. 80 no. 4 2008; (p. 33-37) Focussing mainly on the work of Leigh Redhead and her Simone Kirsch series, Tony Smith examines the tension between 'feminists who might disagree about whether sexually explicit material is intrinsically exploitative or could be empowering.'
'Tart Noir' : Erotica or Pornography? Tony Smith , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: AQ : Australian Quarterly , July-August vol. 80 no. 4 2008; (p. 33-37) Focussing mainly on the work of Leigh Redhead and her Simone Kirsch series, Tony Smith examines the tension between 'feminists who might disagree about whether sexually explicit material is intrinsically exploitative or could be empowering.'
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