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Issue Details: First known date: 2001... 2001 Delicate Indecencies
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'In a wintry graveyard, a young man looks death in the eye and does not live to tell the secrets he holds. In Russia, the opening of a dusty archive reveals clues about a deadly game which has not yet reached its conclusion. In an isolated farmhouse, an old man is kept prisoner while his captors try to extract vital information from his rambling mind. Into this sticky web of deceit and intrigue stumbles Martin teschmaker, a newly redundant insurance investigator who has just been deserted by his wife. Seeking relief from his mid-life crisis, teschmaker contacts an old girlfriend, Jane Morris. With that one phone call he is plunged into an underworld where nothing and no one can be taken at face value. As he attempts to remove the masks, teschmaker realises the truth is more complex and more dangerous than he could ever have imagined. And somehow he has to bring this deadly game to its conclusion, and survive.'

Source : publisher's blurb

Notes

  • Dedication: For Suzanna.
  • Epigraph: I seek the love that is more cruel than pain. - Isadora Duncan
  • Epigraph: Love hurts. - Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris

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Other Formats

  • Also sound recording.

Works about this Work

Crimefile Steve Gibbons , 2002 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 3 August 2002; (p. 6)

— Review of Delicate Indecencies Sandy McCutcheon , 2001 single work novel ; Murder in Montparnasse Kerry Greenwood , 2002 single work novel
Close Encounters in a Delicate Spy World Jeff Popple , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: Canberra Sunday Times , 6 January 2002; (p. 48)
Double Puzzle Demands Concentration Paul Wilson , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 17 November 2001; (p. 6)

— Review of Delicate Indecencies Sandy McCutcheon , 2001 single work novel
Double Puzzle Demands Concentration Paul Wilson , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 17 November 2001; (p. 6)

— Review of Delicate Indecencies Sandy McCutcheon , 2001 single work novel
Crimefile Steve Gibbons , 2002 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 3 August 2002; (p. 6)

— Review of Delicate Indecencies Sandy McCutcheon , 2001 single work novel ; Murder in Montparnasse Kerry Greenwood , 2002 single work novel
Close Encounters in a Delicate Spy World Jeff Popple , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: Canberra Sunday Times , 6 January 2002; (p. 48)
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