Jon Cleary

Jon Stephen Cleary (born 22 November 1917) is an Australian author.

Born in Erskineville Sydney, Australia, Cleary has written many books, among them "Sundowners" (1951) and "The High Commissioner" (1966), the first of a long series of popular detective fiction works featuring Sydney Police Inspector Scobie Malone. A number of Cleary's works have been the subject of film or television adaptations.

His first novel was the 1947 work, "You Can't See Round Corners", which dwelt on the life of an army deserter wanted for the sensational murder of his girlfriend in wartime Sydney.

Cleary worked as a journalist for the Australia News and Information Bureau in London from 1948-49 and in New York from 1949-51.

Cleary's honours include the Australian Broadcasting Commission prize for radio drama in 1944, the Australian Literary Society’s Crouch Medal for Best Australian Novel in 1950, an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Novel ("Peter's Pence") in 1975, and the Australian Crime Writers Association Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996.

Awards

* 2004 - Ned Kelly Awards Best Novel for "Degrees of Connection"cite web |title= Ned Kelly Awards |publisher= Australian Crime Fiction Database |url= http://www.crimedownunder.com/nedkellyawards.html |accessdate= 2007-09-15]
* 1996 - Ned Kelly Awards Lifelong Contribution to the Crime, Mystery and Detective Genres
* 1975 - Edgar Award for "Peter's Pence"

Bibliography

Novels

*"You Can't See Round Corners" (1947)
*"The Long Shadow" (1949)
*"Just Let Me Be" (1950)
*"The Sundowners" (1952)
*"The Climate of Courage" (1954)
*"Justin Bayard" (1955) (aka "Dust in the Sun")
*"The Green Helmet" (1957)
*"Back of Sunset" (1959)
*"The Country of Marriage" (1962)
*"Forests of the Night" (1963)
*"A Flight of Chariots" (1964)
*"The Fall of an Eagle" (1965)
*"The High Commissioner" (1966)
*"The Pulse of Danger" (1966)
*"Season of Doubt" (1968)
*"Helga's Web" (1970)
*"Mask of Andes" (1971)
*"A Man's Estate" (1972) (aka "The Ninth Marquess")
*"Ransom" (1973)
*"Peter's Pence" (1975)
*"A Very Private War" (1980)
*"The Faraway Drums" (1981)
*"The Golden Sabre" (1981)
*"Spearfield's Daughter" (1982)
*"The Phoenix Tree" (1984)
*"The City of Fading Light" (1985)
*"Dragons at the Party" (1987)
*"Now and Then, Amen" (1988)
*"Babylon South" (1989)
*"You, the Jury" (1990) (aka "Just Let Me Be")
*"Murder Song" (1990)
*"Pride's Harvest" (1991)
*"Dark Summer" (1992)
*"Bleak Spring" (1993)
*"Autumn Maze" (1994)
*"Winter Chill" (1995)
*"Endpeace" (1996)
*"Five Ring Circus" (1998)
*"A Different Turf" (1998)
*"Dilemma" (1999)
*"Bear Pit" (2000)
*"Yesterday's Shadow" (2001)
*"The Easy Sin" (2002)
*"Degrees of Connection" (2003)
*"Miss Ambar Regrets" (2004)
*"Morning's Gone" (2006)
*"Four-Cornered Circle" (2007)

hort story collections

*"These Small Glories" (1946)

Notes

External links

* [http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/jcleary.htm Jon Cleary biography and bibliography]
* [http://www.xs4all.nl/~embden11/Engels/cleary.htm Works]