Helga's Web

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Helga's Web was a 1970 novel by Australian author Jon Cleary, the second to feature his detective hero Scobie Malone.[1][2]

LanguageEnglish
SeriesScobie Malone series
GenreDetective
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Helga's Web
First UK edition
AuthorJon Cleary
LanguageEnglish
SeriesScobie Malone series
GenreDetective
PublisherCollins (UK)
William Morrow (US)
Publication date
1970
Publication placeAustralia
Preceded byThe High Commissioner 
Followed byRansom 
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Cleary did not originally intend to use the character again but wanted to write about the construction of the new Sydney Opera House and thought the detective could be a good way to access that.[3]

Reception

The London Daily Telegraph called it "absorbing to the end."[4]

The Sydney Morning Herald called it a "first class, exciting, immensely readable thriller."[5]

Adaptation

The novel was adapted into a film as Scobie Malone (1975).

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