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Is part of The Plant Novels Michael Wilding , 2007 series - author novel (number 4 in series)
Issue Details: First known date: 2013... 2013 Asian Dawn
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'Gallery owner Alice Ackerman hires Plant to find her husband, missing in Asia. Plant gets embroiled with the expatriate language teacher Bowles with a penchant for cut-price Bangkok bar-girls, excitable Indian professor Ghosh, a Manila bookseller with impeccable CIA connections, and exotic cabaret singer Anna-Imelda. Drugged and seduced at the Eternal Night Club, kidnapped and imprisoned in Baguio City, PLant is deported from the Philippines. Fired from the case, he is visited in his rural hideaway by the menacing international publisher Starr, whose taste for dangerous sex may be the reason he is later found hanged in a Bangkok hotel. The action moves rapidly through Thailand, India, the Philippines and the Australian Gold Coast.' (Publisher's blurb)

Notes

  • The next mystery with private detective Keith Plant
  • Dedication: To Pira Sudham

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,: Arcadia , 2013 .
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      Extent: 226p.
      Note/s:
      • Published July 2013
      ISBN: 9781921875397
      Series: y separately published work icon Press On Arcadia (publisher), Melbourne : Arcadia , 2009-2015 Z1824488 2009 series - publisher novel 'Press On is published in partnership with Arcadia. In 2010, four Press On books were published by Press On Publishing in association with Arcadia, the general books' imprint of Australian Scholarly Publishing. Authors Michael Wilding, Peter Corris, Phillip Edmonds and Inez Baranay began the first batch of Press On. Commissioned by Michael Wilding, eight more books join the series with new authors Morris Lurie, Garry Disher, Ross Fitzgerald, Trevor Jordan and Victoria Thompson. Felix Calvino's previously published A Hatful of Cherries Arcadia, 2009 has also taken on the Press On logo. Arcadia's 2011 Press On additions were launched at the Melbourne Writers Festival this year.' Source: www.scholarly.info/ (Sighted 15/11/2011). Number in series: 16
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Works about this Work

Needle in the Asian Haystack Alison Broinowski , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 1 February 2014; (p. 20)
— Review of Asian Dawn Michael Wilding , 2013 single work novel
In Short : Fiction Cameron Woodhead , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 14-15 December 2013; (p. 32) The Age , 14 December 2013; (p. 26)
— Review of Asian Dawn Michael Wilding , 2013 single work novel
In Short : Fiction Cameron Woodhead , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 14-15 December 2013; (p. 32) The Age , 14 December 2013; (p. 26)
— Review of Asian Dawn Michael Wilding , 2013 single work novel
Needle in the Asian Haystack Alison Broinowski , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 1 February 2014; (p. 20)
— Review of Asian Dawn Michael Wilding , 2013 single work novel
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Last amended 24 May 2017 11:09:55
Subjects:
Settings:
  • Gold Coast, Queensland,
  • c
    India,
    c
    South Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
  • c
    Philippines,
    c
    Southeast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
  • c
    Thailand,
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    Southeast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
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