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Helga's Web
First UK edition
AuthorJon Cleary
LanguageEnglish
SeriesScobie Malone series
GenreDetective
PublisherCollins (UK)
William Morrow (US)
Publication date
1970
Publication placeAustralia
Preceded byThe High Commissioner 
Followed byRansom 

Helga's Web was a 1970 novel by Australian author Jon Cleary, the second to feature his detective hero Scobie Malone.[1]

Cleary did not originally intend to use the character again but wanted to write about the construction of the new Sydney Opera House and thought the detective could be a good way to access that.[2]

Adaptation

The novel was adapted into a film as Scobie Malone (1975).

References

  1. ^ "Three novels well worth reading". The Canberra Times. 22 August 1970. p. 12. Retrieved 18 October 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. ^ Jon Cleary Interviewed by Stephen Vagg: Oral History at National Film and Sound Archive