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Issue Details: First known date: 2012... 2012 Harry Curry : The Murder Book
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'The renegade barrister Harry Curry and his elegant partner, Arabella Engineer, return with more thrilling spanner-in-the-works criminal trials, every one of them in defence of clients charged with murder.

Meet the multiple murderer seeking a discounted sentence because he confesses to killings about which the police are clueless. Pity the fisherman who hated the sea, driven to let loose at his landlord with a rifle, plugging him ten times. And share the sadness of a shaken-baby case, where Harry, ever the iconoclast, takes on the conventional wisdom of self-serving medical experts.

Throughout these cases and more, the Curry-Engineer relationship waxes and wanes: Harry sells his Erskineville terrace and retreats to a farm on the Far South Coast; Arabella is showered with high-paying civil work and looks set for a life on the District Court bench. Harry′s visits to Sydney are few and far between, and Ms Engineer begins to find excuses not to catch the little plane down to Merimbula ... Is it Harry′s fate to die an eccentric gentleman farmer? Will Arabella decamp with a suitable Indian boy? Can the pair-aided and abetted by faithful solicitor David Surrey-rediscover the spark that brought them together?

Perhaps they will-if Wallace Curry QC, from the fastness of his top-end retirement facility, lends a hand.' Source: http://www.harpercollins.com.au/(Sighted 07/08/2012).

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: HarperCollins Australia , 2012 .
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      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 342p.
      Note/s:
      • Contents: No Discount for Mass Murder -- Confronting the Abuser -- Lennie without George -- The Shaken Baby -- The Fisherman Who Hated the Sea.
      ISBN: 9780732293437 (pbk.)
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Harry Curry : Criminal Defender Stuart Littlemore , Sydney : HarperCollins Australia , 2013 Z1919064 2013 selected work short story novel Sydney : HarperCollins Australia , 2013

Works about this Work

Take Three : Crime Fiction Jeff Popple , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Sunday Canberra Times , 19 August 2012; (p. 26)

— Review of Harry Curry : The Murder Book Stuart Littlemore , 2012 selected work short story
What's a Trial Among Learned Friends? Thornton McCamish , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 5 August 2012; (p. 15)

— Review of Harry Curry : The Murder Book Stuart Littlemore , 2012 selected work short story
Crime Winsor Dobbin , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 5 August 2012; (p. 19)

— Review of Harry Curry : The Murder Book Stuart Littlemore , 2012 selected work short story
Fiction Bruce McMahon , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 4 - 5 August 2012; (p. 22)

— Review of Harry Curry : The Murder Book Stuart Littlemore , 2012 selected work short story
Fiction Kerryn Goldsworthy , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 4 August 2012; (p. 32) The Sydney Morning Herald , 4-5 August 2012; (p. 32)

— Review of Harry Curry : The Murder Book Stuart Littlemore , 2012 selected work short story ; No Sex in the City Randa Abdel-Fattah , 2012 single work novel
Fiction Kerryn Goldsworthy , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 4 August 2012; (p. 32) The Sydney Morning Herald , 4-5 August 2012; (p. 32)

— Review of Harry Curry : The Murder Book Stuart Littlemore , 2012 selected work short story ; No Sex in the City Randa Abdel-Fattah , 2012 single work novel
Fiction Bruce McMahon , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 4 - 5 August 2012; (p. 22)

— Review of Harry Curry : The Murder Book Stuart Littlemore , 2012 selected work short story
Crime Winsor Dobbin , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 5 August 2012; (p. 19)

— Review of Harry Curry : The Murder Book Stuart Littlemore , 2012 selected work short story
What's a Trial Among Learned Friends? Thornton McCamish , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 5 August 2012; (p. 15)

— Review of Harry Curry : The Murder Book Stuart Littlemore , 2012 selected work short story
Take Three : Crime Fiction Jeff Popple , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Sunday Canberra Times , 19 August 2012; (p. 26)

— Review of Harry Curry : The Murder Book Stuart Littlemore , 2012 selected work short story
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