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Issue Details: First known date: 1996... 1996 The Corpse in the Gold Bikini
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'Whenever I see a girl with a gold bikini, I think of Princess Leia. Here on the Gold Coast, gold bikinis are common, so I think of Princess Leia a lot.

'Eighteen-year-old Olivia Grace has deferred her law degree and ducked out of her friends' gap-year tour of Asia. Instead, she's fulfilling her childhood dream of becoming a private investigator, following in the footsteps of Nancy Drew and Veronica Mars - who taught her everything she knows, including a solid line in quick-quipping repartee, the importance of a handbag full of disguises, and a way of mixing business with inconvenient chemistry.

'Playing Watson to the Sherlock of her childhood friend, detective agency owner Rosco (once the Han Solo to her Princess Leia), Olivia pursues a routine cheating husband case from the glitzy Gold Coast to Insta-perfect Byron Bay, where she faces yoga wars, dirty whale activism, and a guru who's kind of a creep.

'Olivia Grace is a teenage screwball heroine for the #metoo era, and The Girl with the Gold Bikini is a body-positive detective romp, rich with pop-culture pleasures.'  (Publication summary)

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    • The Junction, Merewether - Newcastle area, Newcastle, Newcastle - Hunter Valley area, New South Wales,: Australian Pocket Press , 1996 .
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      Extent: 194p.
      ISBN: 1876075058
      Series: y separately published work icon Pocket Crime Series Australian Pocket Press (publisher), 1995-1998 Z1129215 1995 series - publisher novel crime The Pocket Crime Series is a quarterly publication catering exclusively to the murder mystery reader. The Pocket Crime Series aims to publish monthly mysteries from both new and established authors. The plot in book in this series must resolve around a murder and its resolution. Number in series: 6

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Convivial, Dirty-World Crime Graeme Blundell , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 26-27 July 1997; (p. rev 9)

— Review of Murder Under the Mangoes : Crime Writers Queensland 1997 anthology short story ; Fallout Garry Disher , 1997 single work novel ; The Corpse in the Gold Bikini Kevin Baker , 1996 single work novel ; The Clan J. R. Carroll , 1996 single work novel
Convivial, Dirty-World Crime Graeme Blundell , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 26-27 July 1997; (p. rev 9)

— Review of Murder Under the Mangoes : Crime Writers Queensland 1997 anthology short story ; Fallout Garry Disher , 1997 single work novel ; The Corpse in the Gold Bikini Kevin Baker , 1996 single work novel ; The Clan J. R. Carroll , 1996 single work novel
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