Jon Cleary Books In Order

Scobie Malone Books In Publication Order

  1. The High Commissioner (1966)
  2. Helga’s Web (1970)
  3. Ransom (1973)
  4. Dragons at the Party (1987)
  5. Now and Then, Amen (1988)
  6. Babylon South (1989)
  7. Murder Song (1990)
  8. Pride’s Harvest (1991)
  9. Dark Summer (1992)
  10. Bleak Spring (1993)
  11. Autumn Maze (1994)
  12. Winter Chill (1995)
  13. A Different Turf (1996)
  14. Endpeace (1997)
  15. Five Ring Circus (1998)
  16. Dilemma (1999)
  17. Yesterday’s Shadow (2001)
  18. The Bear Pit (2001)
  19. The Easy Sin (2003)
  20. Degrees of Connection (2004)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. You Can’t See Around Corners (1947)
  2. The Long Shadow (1949)
  3. You, the Jury / Just Let Me Be (1950)
  4. The Sundowners (1952)
  5. The Climate of Courage / Naked in the Night (1954)
  6. Justin Bayard / Dust in the Sun (1955)
  7. The Green Helmet (1959)
  8. North From Thursday (1960)
  9. Forests of the Night (1963)
  10. A Flight of Chariots (1964)
  11. The Fall of an Eagle (1965)
  12. Season of Doubt (1968)
  13. Remember Jack Hoxie (1969)
  14. Mask of the Andes / The Liberators (1971)
  15. Man’s Estate / The Ninth Marquess (1972)
  16. Peter’s Pence (1974)
  17. The Safe House (1975)
  18. A Sound of Lightning (1976)
  19. Vortex (1977)
  20. Pulse of Danger (1977)
  21. Back of Sunset (1978)
  22. High Road to China (1978)
  23. The Beaufort Sisters (1979)
  24. A Very Private War (1980)
  25. The Faraway Drums (1981)
  26. The Golden Sabre (1981)
  27. Spearfield’s Daughter (1982)
  28. The Phoenix Tree (1984)
  29. The City of Fading Light (1985)
  30. The Long Pursuit (1988)
  31. Miss Ambar Regrets (2005)
  32. Four-Cornered Circle (2007)
  33. Morning’s Gone (2007)

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Jon Cleary Books Overview

Dragons at the Party

Playing time is approximately 13 1/2 hours. 9 cassettes.

Babylon South

Two murders in the same family take place, 20 years apart, in a Sydney community. Scobie Malone remembers the long unsolved murder when he is called upon to investigate the new one, but there are complications. The author also wrote ‘The Sundowners’ and ‘The High Commissioner’.

Murder Song

When a sniper kills a classmate of Inspector Scobie Malone, and then attempts to kill another, Scobie begins to see a pattern emerging. Fearing for his family’s safety and forced into hiding with his friend Boru O’Brien, Scobie must track down the the killer before he too becomes a victim.

Dark Summer

When one of his most prolific informers turns up dead in his own swimming pool, Inspector Scobie Malone takes the case despite the obvious warning to stay away. By the author of Pride’s Harvest.

Bleak Spring

A series of graded readers covering a wide range of styles and kinds of English, both fiction and non fiction, with comprehension exercises, questions and crosswords. Level 4 has a vocabulary of 1500 words.

Winter Chill

Inspector Scobie Malone struggles to cope with the serious illness of his wife while investigating the murder of Orville Brame, a prominent American lawyer found shot to death on the Sydney, Australia, monorail, and uncovering an international web of betrayal and greed.

Endpeace

When Scobie Malone and his wife are invited to a dinner party thrown by the wealthy Huxwoods and the patriarch of the family turns up murdered following the festivities, Scobie finds himself caught up in the mysteries of wealth, power, and family.’

Five Ring Circus

It’s a special occassion Down Under the notoriously frugal Inspector Malone is taking his family to dinner at one of Sydney’s finest Chinese restuarants. But their gala turns grisly when a masked assassin enters and guns down three men at a nearby table. The ante goes up when Scobie discovers that one victim was an investor in Olympic Tower, a multimillion dollar luxury project in down town Sydney, intended as posh housing for the VIPs during the 2000 Olympic Games. With construction stalled by union strife and an economic slump, the Olympic Tower is still an empty shell or is it a deadly shell game? Scobie must solve a scam that could sour the city’s image. It seems everyone is involved from former Chinese government bigwigs to a city councilman on the take; from humble Chinese students with seven figure bank accounts to the mysterious Madame Tzu, a dragon lady if there ever was one. As Scobie and his family are drawn into the circle of danger, he finds himself in an arena where sportsmanship is the last thing on anybody’s mind.

Dilemma

Inspector Scobie Malone is called in on an easy case Norma Glaze is found strangled in her bedroom and her husband, Ron, has disappeared. All evidence points towards the husband, so Malone puts the case aside. But the scene from the night before tells the real story: a one night stand gone bad and a killer with a twisted claw of a right hand. Four years later, tipped off by a local officer in the bush town of Collamundra, Malone finds Ron Glaze and arrests him. On trial for murder, Glaze insists that he is innocent, but the evidence points to his conviction. The prosecutor for the case is brilliant, young Tim Pierpont, a family man and pillar of the community. With Pierpont on the case, Malone knows it’s open and shut. An easy win. Meanwhile, Sydney is up in arms over the kidnapping of Lucybelle Vanheusen, a child model who is the advertising darling of the moment. Given the hysterical nature of her family, Malone doesn’t take her abduction seriously until a body is found. The murder shakes the devoted father in Malone, but as he investigates the kidnapping, it becomes painfully clear that the family life of little Lucybelle was far from the warm, loving existence of his own home. Just when Malone thinks he can’t sink any lower, a key witness comes forward in the Glaze case and implicates Tim Pierpont in the murder. Malone doesn’t buy the accusation, but he can’t ignore the coincidence presented to him Pierpont’s deformed right hand. He is forced to investigate the Crown Prosecutor, his friend and respected colleague. Suddenly, Malone is embroiled in two cases where the deeper he probes, the more he wishes he hadn’t. And the answers he finds are too awful to reveal. Herein begins his Dilemma. Scobie Malone is called in on an easy case Norma Glaze is found strangled in her bedroom and her husband, Ron, has disappeared. All evidence points toward the husband, so Malone puts the case aside. But the scene from the night before tells the real story a one night stand gone bad and a killer with a twisted claw of a right hand. Four years later, Ron Glaze is on trial for murder, and the prosecution is brilliant young Tim Pierpont, a family man and friend to Malone, who also happens to have a twisted claw of a right hand. A witness comes forward, implicating Pierpont in the murder Malone doesn’t buy it, but could it really only be a coincidence? Herein begins Dilemma.

Yesterday’s Shadow

Love never dies…
unless a killer intervenes. The Hotel Southern Savoy has become the reluctant host to two corpses on a single night and Homicide Inspector Scobie Malone knows this investigation will be a nightmare the moment he arrives. The first victim was the wife of the American Ambassador, a slaying that will certainly have international repercussions and worse, if the lady’s dark secrets are ever revealed. But it’s the second murder that strikes straight at Malone’s heart. The dead man was the husband of a woman from Malone’s past, a brief love long over but never forgotten. An assassin has violently blended Malone’s personal and professional lives in a lethal stew of blood and memory, and there’s no way the dedicated policeman’s going to walk away from this one unscathed. But even Scobie Malone doesn’t realize how deadly a concoction it truly is and by the time he does, it may already be too late…

The Sundowners

The best selling tale of the outback Australian family, the Carmodys. Paddy Carmody loves being ‘someone whose home is where the sun goes down’, but his wife and teenage son are tired of the nomadic life, and want to settle down.

Peter’s Pence

‘Ransom! It was very simple: steal a group of Vatican treasures, hold them for ransom, take the money and run. But suddenly, tragically, four vicious I.R.A. gunmen ended up kidnapping the Pope!’

High Road to China

In 1920 Eve Tozer, the attractive daughter of an American tycoon with huge trading interests in China, disembarked from her P&O liner at Tilbury and checked in at the Savoy. It was at the hotel that Eve discovered that her father had been kidnapped.

Morning’s Gone

A story of the demands of a life in politics Matt Durban is a seasoned politician, tipped to lead his party. His wife, Carmel, has been a loyal partner, but shes also got controversial political views of her own…
And there are those who will stop at nothing to prevent Matt from becoming party leader even if that means going back decades and putting everything hes worked so hard to achieve at risk…

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