y separately published work icon Browning P.I. single work   novel   crime  
Is part of Richard Browning Peter Corris , 1987 series - author novel
Issue Details: First known date: 1992... 1992 Browning P.I.
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'‘The big black car came up out of nowhere… I heard a siren and slowed down and pulled over like an honest citizen. The next thing I knew two men with hats pulled down over their eyes and sunglasses on above their tough expressions were pulling open the front doors of my car. I heard May Lin scream and saw a gun…’

'Hollywood. Studio screenwriter Hart Sallust, well-known patron of sleazy bars and nightclubs, has disappeared. Peter McVey, private eye, has been hired to find him. In unfamiliar territory, McVey enlists Browning – part-time actor, part-time private eye – at home in any Hollywood bar.

'From Hollywood bars to the Chinese underworld, their search uncovers the beautiful May Lin. With Sallust when he disappeared, and seemingly inconsolable. Or is she? Her story has ‘more holes in it than a flyscreen’.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

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Works about this Work

Criminal Intent : a Review of Recent Australian Crime Fiction Robert Hood , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: Scarp , October no. 21 1992; (p. 72-74)

— Review of Browning P.I. Peter Corris , 1992 single work novel ; To Make a Killing Jean Bedford , 1992 single work novel ; The Japanese Job Peter Corris , 1992 single work novel ; The Makeover Murders Jennifer Rowe , 1992 single work novel ; No Way Back J. R. Carroll , 1992 single work novel ; White Collar Richard Cassidy , 1992 single work novel ; Dead Set-Up Kit Moodie , 1992 single work novel ; Set Up Peter Corris , 1992 single work novel ; Whipping Boy Gabrielle Lord , 1992 single work novel ; Death at Victoria Dock Kerry Greenwood , 1992 single work novel
Whodunnit Hat-Trick from Our Crime King Katharine England , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser Magazine , 21 November 1992; (p. 5)

— Review of Browning P.I. Peter Corris , 1992 single work novel ; The Japanese Job Peter Corris , 1992 single work novel ; Set Up Peter Corris , 1992 single work novel
Untitled Bruce Molloy , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: Imago , July vol. 4 no. 2 1992; (p. 103-104)

— Review of Browning P.I. Peter Corris , 1992 single work novel
Classic '40s Mystery has Racy Plot Josephine Riley , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: The Newcastle Herald , 4 July 1992; (p. 48)

— Review of Browning P.I. Peter Corris , 1992 single work novel
Untitled David Kibble , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: Mean Streets : A Quarterly Journal of Crime, Mystery and Detection , May no. 6 1992; (p. 54)

— Review of Browning P.I. Peter Corris , 1992 single work novel
Crime Ray Davie , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 9 May 1992; (p. 9)

— Review of Not in Single Spies Catherine Lewis , Judith Guerin , 1992 single work novel ; Browning P.I. Peter Corris , 1992 single work novel ; Beware of the Dog : A Cliff Hardy Novel Peter Corris , 1992 single work novel ; Paydirt Garry Disher , 1992 single work novel
Guilt Edge J. R. Carroll , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 139 1992; (p. 48-49)

— Review of A Break in the Traffic Steve Wright , 1992 single work novel ; Browning P.I. Peter Corris , 1992 single work novel ; Death by Defamation Ken Methold , 1991 single work novel
Forecasts Steven Kafkarisos , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Bookseller & Publisher , February vol. 71 no. 1023 1992; (p. 27-28)

— Review of Browning P.I. Peter Corris , 1992 single work novel
Good Year for Australian Whodunits Continues Jeff Popple , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 7 June 1992; (p. 23)

— Review of Browning P.I. Peter Corris , 1992 single work novel ; The Makeover Murders Jennifer Rowe , 1992 single work novel ; White Collar Richard Cassidy , 1992 single work novel
Untitled David Kibble , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: Mean Streets : A Quarterly Journal of Crime, Mystery and Detection , May no. 6 1992; (p. 54)

— Review of Browning P.I. Peter Corris , 1992 single work novel
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Subjects:
  • Los Angeles, California,
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    United States of America (USA),
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    Americas,
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  • 1940s
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