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When was the last time a book transported to you to Sydney Road, Brunswick? After a body is found in a chiller, Murray Whelan is called in to hose down the simmering industrial situation at Pacific Pastoral meat works. Fast-paced and very funny, this is a perfect holiday read.
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AuthorShane Maloney
Shane Maloney is one of Australia's most popular novelists. His award-winning Murray Whelan series is characterised by a strong sense of humour and an acute eye for Melbourne's political and cultural nuances. Telemovies of Stiff and The Brush-Off starring David Wenham were broadcast in 2004. The next Murray Whelan novel, Sucked In, is due for release mid 2007.
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Who loved this book?Cr Fraser Brindley, Melbourne City Council
'Laws are like sausages: it’s better not to see them being made.' Otto von Bismarck.
Shane Maloney goes some way towards exposing us to the machinations of both laws and sausages as Murray Whelan sets upon his whimsical investigation of a murder in a meat house. Having juggled phone calls while repairing roofing iron more than once in my political career, I was able to conjure an unhealthy sense of association with Whelan’s escapades. Whelan is both sharp and blindingly stupid, and within this Stiff is a wonderful evocation of the masterful and the mundane that defines a political life in the Northern Suburbs.
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