South-African born, Australian-based Peter Temple (1946–2018) was the author of several thrillers, including the bestselling Jack Irish series. This collection includes his last, unfinished Jack Irish novel, the TV screenplay ‘Valentine’s Day’, six short stories, autobiographical fragments, and a selection of book reviews, including his thoughts on Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Raymond Chandler and John Le Carré. Slightly off-mint.
Peter Temple held crime writing up to the light and, with his poet's ear and eye, made it his own incomparable thing.
Peter Temple started publishing novels late, when he was fifty, but then he got cracking. He wrote nine novels in thirteen years. Along the way he wrote screenplays, stories, dozens of reviews.
When Temple died in March 2018 there was an unfinished Jack Irish novel in his drawer. It is included in The Red Hand, and it reveals the master at the peak of his powers. The Red Hand also includes the screenplay of Valentine's Day, an improbably delightful story about an ailing country football club, which in 2007 was adapted for television by the ABC. Also included are his short fiction, his reflections on the Australian idiom, a handful of autobiographical fragments, and a selection of his brilliant book reviews.
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