Michael Duffy (Australian journalist)
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Michael Duffy is an Australian author and former journalist and broadcaster. He and his wife the artist Alex Snellgrove own the publishing company Duffy & Snellgrove, which published the first books by Peter Robb (Midnight in Sicily), Ashley Hay (The Secret), John Birmingham (He Died with a Felafel in His Hand) and Rosalie Ham (The Dressmaker). Other authors included Les Murray, Mungo MacCallum and John Olsen.[1] The company stopped publishing new titles in 2005.
Duffy presented ABC Radio National's Counterpoint with Paul Comrie-Thomson[when?]. Set up to provide some balance to the station's left-wing Late Night Live, Counterpoint went on to rate better than its source of inspiration. [citation needed]
Duffy has written four true crime books and the Sydney crime novels The Tower, The Simple Death and Drive By.[2] He is now writing the Bella Greaves series of crime novels set in the Blue Mountains.[3] The first is The Problem with Murder.[citation needed]
Books
[edit]- Crossing the Blue Mountains: journeys through two centuries editor (1996), history
- The Tower (2009), crime fiction
- The Simple Death (2011), crime fiction
- Call Me Cruel: A Story about Murder and the Dangerous Power of Lies (2012), true crime
- Bad: The True Story of the Perish Brothers and Australia's Biggest Ever Murder Investigation (2012), true crime
- Drive By (2013), crime fiction
- Sydney Noir: The golden years co-authored with Nick Hordern, 2017
- World War Noir: Sydney's unpatriotic war, co-authored with Nick Hordern, 2019
- The Problem with Murder (2021), crime fiction
- The Strange Death of Paul Ruel (2022), crime fiction