The Dragon Man

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Allen & Unwin, 1999 - Fiction - 239 pages
Meet Hal Challis, Detective for the Mornington Peninsula police force in Southeast Australia, in the first investigation in this prize-winning crime series
A serial killer is on the loose in a small coastal town near Melbourne, Australia. Detective Inspector Hal Challis and his team must apprehend him before he strikes again. But first, Challis has to contend with the editor of a local newspaper who undermines his investigation at every turn, and with his wife, who attempts to resurrect their marriage through long-distance phone calls from a sanitarium, where she has been committed for the past eight years for attempted murder--"his."
 

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Contents

Section 1
1
Section 2
4
Section 3
15
Section 4
28
Section 5
38
Section 6
50
Section 7
59
Section 8
66
Section 15
142
Section 16
153
Section 17
163
Section 18
168
Section 19
177
Section 20
185
Section 21
198
Section 22
208

Section 9
85
Section 10
115
Section 11
118
Section 12
122
Section 13
127
Section 14
131
Section 23
213
Section 24
220
Section 25
226
Section 26
228
Section 27
234
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About the author (1999)

Garry Disher grew up in rural South Australia. He has travelled widely and now lives on the Victorian coast. A full-time, award-winning writer for many years, his books include novels, short story collections, the Personal Best anthologies and writers' handbooks. Garry Disher's crime fiction includes numerous anthology stories and the Wyatt novels, Kickback, Paydirt, Deathdeal, Crosskill and Port Vila Blues. His third literary novel, The Sunken Road, shortlisted for the NBC Banjo Award, was published by Allen + Unwin in March 1996.

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