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Issue Details: First known date: 1993... 1993 Gross Misconduct
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Notes

  • Dedication: To Catherine Hanan - My all-time favourite lawyer
  • Epigraph: A rape! A rape! Yes, you have ravished justice; forced her to do your pleasure. - John Webster (1580-1625)
  • Author's note: Certain real life events which occurred in the 1950s inspired my original stage play Assault with a Deadly Weapon. However, it would be wrong to draw exact parallels between those actual events and the events that are described in the film Gross Misconduct and this novel. Furthermore, through the many rewrites of the stage play, the screenplay and this novel, a lot has changed ...

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Chippendale, Inner Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,: Pan , 1993 .
      Extent: 307p.
      ISBN: 0330274082 (pbk.)

Other Formats

  • Also sound recording.
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