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Don Hany as Sam Callaghan
form y separately published work icon Serangoon Road series - publisher   film/TV   detective  
Issue Details: First known date: 2013... 2013 Serangoon Road
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'1964-65. Singapore is a city at a crossroads. Political and racial tensions are at fever pitch as the British pull out, and a new nation is about to be born. The lights of Bugis Street have never burned so bright: bootleg copies of Motown songs boom out from street stalls; the Rolling Stones are in town along with tourists and American sailors fresh from Vietnam. They join British and Australian soldiers checking out the prostitutes and gambling dens en route to their own war in Borneo.

This is the city of Sam Callaghan, Patricia Cheng, the CIA’s Conrad Harrison and the clients of the Cheng Detective Agency. The agency’s cases range from the usual (straying spouses and petty fraudsters) to events with international implications and complications. Sam’s contacts from his military days are useful - but they start to drag him back into a dark world that he would prefer to leave behind.'

Source: 'About [Serangoon Road]' http://www.abc.net.au/tv/programs/serangoon-road/ (Sighted 06/12/2013)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

First known date: 2013

Works about this Work

Hany's Hero an Action Man on the Edge Debbie Schipp , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Sunday Mail , 22 September 2013; (p. 3)
Road Less Travelled by Small Screen 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Sunday Mail , 22 September 2013; (p. 7)
Secrets and Spies Graeme Blundell , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 21-22 September 2013; (p. 26-27)

— Review of Serangoon Road Tim Dylan Lee , Kym Goldsworthy , Justin Monjo , Margaret Wilson , Chris Hawkshaw , Tony Morphett , Michaeley O'Brien , 2013 series - publisher film/TV
Don Takes a New Road in His Career Colin Vickery , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 18 September 2013; (p. 33)
Secrets and Spies Graeme Blundell , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 21-22 September 2013; (p. 26-27)

— Review of Serangoon Road Tim Dylan Lee , Kym Goldsworthy , Justin Monjo , Margaret Wilson , Chris Hawkshaw , Tony Morphett , Michaeley O'Brien , 2013 series - publisher film/TV
Don Takes a New Road in His Career Colin Vickery , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 18 September 2013; (p. 33)
Road Less Travelled by Small Screen 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Sunday Mail , 22 September 2013; (p. 7)
Hany's Hero an Action Man on the Edge Debbie Schipp , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Sunday Mail , 22 September 2013; (p. 3)
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    Singapore,
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