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Issue Details: First known date: 1989... 1989 Mickey Douglas Series
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y separately published work icon Death on a Hot Summer Night Anne Infante , London : Collins , 1989 Z537240 1989 single work novel crime thriller

'Children's author Mickey Douglas is either accident-prone or someone is trying to kill him. Returning home one hot, sticky Brisbane afternoon, intent on relaxing in a tub of cold water, he finds his bath already occupied by his illustrator, Owen Pendleton. Except that Owen isn't trying to beat the heat. Owen is very dead. And this is only the first in a series of horrifying discoveries for Mickey as he finds himself caught in a desperate race to save his ex-wife and others from a ruthless gang.'

Source: Blurb.
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y separately published work icon Deathwater Anne Infante , London : HarperCollins Australia , 1991 Z200975 1991 single work novel crime Darkwater is a historical home near Brisbane, owned by the Forrest family. Journalist Bob Slater, who is writing an article about the house and family, is killed in a car accident, so children's author Micky Douglas agrees to finish the article. But was Bob's death an accident? Driven by curiosity, Micky sets out to investigate and uncovers a deadly plot to suppress an old scandal of Government and police corruption, the truth about the supposed suicide of Eileen Forrest's husband, a horrific crime against the original native tribe which once inhabited the Darkwater land and a cunning murderer who is determined to remove Micky before he discovers the truth.
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y separately published work icon Death in Green Anne Infante , London : HarperCollins Australia , 1992 Z301610 1992 single work novel crime Mitchell Island, off the Queensland coast, has become the focus of conflict between timber workers and conservationists. When the scriptwriter of a documentary is found drowned, children's author Micky Douglas, agrees to step in to complete the script. He is torn between his allegiance to ecologist Damien White, his friendship with Inspector Reeves, his love of Annie Mason, also working for White, and his loyalty to his friend, journalist Duke Jordan, with whom he sets out to investigate the possibility that the warring groups are being secretly manipulated by someone with quite different plans for the island.
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y separately published work icon Death Launch Anne Infante , London : HarperCollins Australia , 1993 Z1051067 1993 single work novel mystery

'Children's writer Micky Douglas is dismayed when his publishers choose TV star Maddy Grey to launch his next book, because he can't stand her. Someone else can't either, for at the launch she is murdered - and the killer can only be one of the guests.'

Source: publisher's blurb

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