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

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).

References

  1. ^ "Three novels well worth reading". The Canberra Times. 22 August 1970. p. 12. Retrieved 18 October 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. ^ Ruskin, Pamela (12 April 1975). "The little bloke who reached the top". The Age. p. 19.
  3. ^ Jon Cleary Interviewed by Stephen Vagg: Oral History at National Film and Sound Archive
  4. ^ "Criminal records". The Daily Telegraph. 2 July 1970. p. 9.
  5. ^ Pringle, John Douglas (8 August 1970). "A body in the Opera House". The Sydney Morning Herald. p. 22.
Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helga%27s_Web
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