Bad Debts

1996 novel by Peter Temple
0-7322-5816-2OCLC38392026Followed byAn Iron Rose 

Bad Debts (1996) is a Ned Kelly Award-winning novel by Australian author Peter Temple.[1] This is the first novel in the author's Jack Irish series.[2]

Dedication

"For Anita and Nicholas : true believers."

Awards

  • Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing, Best First Novel, 1997: joint winner[3]

Publication history

  • Also published in USA (in 2005 by MacAdam/Cage), in Canada (in 2006 by Anchor Canada), in the UK (in 2007 by Quercus) and in the Netherlands, in a Dutch-language edition (in 2002 by De Boekerij) with a translation by Paul Witte.[1]

Television adaptation

  • This novel was adapted into an Australian television movie Jack Irish: Bad Debts in 2016, which was directed by Jeffrey Walker, from a script by Peter Temple, and featuring Guy Pearce in the lead role. [4]

Reviews

  • Publishers Weekly[5]
  • Reviewing the Evidence[6]

References

  1. ^ a b "Bad Debts". Austlit. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
  2. ^ "Jack Irish by Peter Temple". Austlit. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
  3. ^ "Previous Winners: Best Fiction". Australian Crime Writers Association. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
  4. ^ "Jack Irish Series 1". ABC. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
  5. ^ "Bad Debts". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
  6. ^ "Bad Debts". Reviewing the Evidence. Retrieved 11 June 2023.


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