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Issue Details: First known date: 2004... 2004 Trifecta : The Ultimate Robert G. Barrett Collection
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Pymble, Turramurra - Pymble - St Ives area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,:HarperCollins Australia , 2004 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Mud Crab Boogie, Robert G. Barrett , single work novel crime

'Extreme Water Polo is the water polo of the 90s. And when Les Norton catches the semi-final on tV he is amazed to see that the man behind Extreme Polo is his old mate, Neville 'Nizegy' Nixon. So when Neville calls out of the blue and asks Les to drive the Murrumbidgee Mud Crabs up to Sydney for the final, Les takes him on. But things are never as simple as they seem and Les finds himself drawn into an hilarious adventure involving the Mud Crabs. Extreme Water Polo is the water polo of the 90s. And when Les Norton catches the semi-final on tV he is amazed to see that the man behind Extreme Polo is his old mate, Neville 'Nizegy' Nixon. So when Neville calls out of the blue and asks Les to drive the Murrumbidgee Mud Crabs up to Sydney for the final, Les takes him on. But things are never as simple as they seem and Les finds himself drawn into an hilarious adventure involving the Mud Crabs.' (Publication summary)

(p. 1-188)
The Wind and the Monkey, Robert G. Barrett , single work novel thriller

'A week's holiday in Shoal Bay courtesy of Price Galese? Sweet. Help Eddie Salita pop a bent copper named Fishcake Fyshbyrne while you're up there? No worries. Solve a mystery on Virgin Island with a sweet little girl named Digger? You beauty! Les Norton, the lovable larrikin from the sunshine state, is back and is heading north, with a little bit of work and a hell of a lot of play in mind. But he had better watch out for hungry sharks and local louts with no manners; and gung-ho federal police with no bloody idea! As the saying goes, he don't go looking for trouble, trouble comes looking for him. Set in Port Stephens, Robert G. Barrett's latest Les Norton adventure the Wind and the Monkey is a romance as well as an adventure and proves once again Bob's enormous appeal to both men and women readers.' (Publication summary)

(p. 189-369)
So What Do You Reckon?, Robert G. Barrett , selected work column

'An amusing, often outrageous, collection of the best columns Robert G. Barrett wrote for People magazine, focusing on Australian life and its heroes and villains. Together these columns represent an often funny, always entertaining and uniquely telling assessment of modern-day Australia.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

(p. 371-557)
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