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  • Bibliography:
    45 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1960
  • Latest Book:
    December 2021
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Full Series List in Order

A Scobie Malone Mystery

1 - The High Commissioner (Jan-1966)
2 - Helga's Web (Jun-1970)
3 - Ransom (1973)
4 - Dragons at the Party (1987)
5 - Now and Then, Amen (Feb-1989)
6 - Babylon South (1989)
7 - Murder Song (Nov-1990)
8 - Pride's Harvest (Nov-1991)
9 - Dark Summer (1991)
10 - Bleak Spring (Mar-1994)
11 - Autumn Maze (Oct-1994)
12 - Winter Chill (Jan-1996)
13 - Endpeace (Aug-1997)
14 - Five-Ring Circus (Mar-1999)
15 - Dilemma (May-2000)
16 - The Bear Pit (Dec-2001)
17 - Yesterday's Shadow (Aug-2002)

Book List in Order: 45 titles

  • Back of Sunset

    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    DOCTOR’S DILEMMA To anyone but Stephen McCabe, the promise of a sleek fashionable wife and a glittering medical career among London’s glamorous Harley Street practitioners was the dream of a lifetime come true. But the young Australian medi...

  • The High Commissioner

    A Scobie Malone Mystery - 1

  • The Long Pursuit

    London: Collins, 1967. 1st U.K. Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, Blue boards with gilt lettering along the spine. Map on front and rear end papers. Very good, tight copy. Suspense novel set in Sumatra. 256 pgs....

  • Season of Doubt

    Paul Tancred, First Secretary at the American Embassy in Beirut, walks a tightrope. On either side, war is imminent. Caught between a passionate desire for peace and loyalty to an old friend and in love with an Arab girl, Paul is sucked into a whirlp...

  • Remember Jack Hoxie

  • Helga's Web

    A Scobie Malone Mystery - 2

    Set in Sydney, Australia, where a young girl is involved in blackmail, Detective-Sergeant Malone reaches Helga too late to warn her about her dangerous game. She has already received her final pay-off. The author also wrote "Gunscope" and "The Sundow...

  • Man's Estate

  • Ransom

    • / Law Enforcement
    • Buy Buy
    A Scobie Malone Mystery - 3

    This is a crime novel from the author of "The Sundowners" and "The High Commissioner". It was Lisa Malone's misfortune to share a lift with the wife of the Mayor, for whom a political kidnapping had been arranged. For Malone, private detective, it wa...

  • Peter's Pence



  • The Safe House

  • Sundowners

  • The Beaufort Sisters

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    Nina, Margaret, Sally and Prue - the four beautiful and spoilt daughters of the richest and most powerful man in Kansas. They took what they wanted and loved whoever they pleased. Their father could buy them anything they desired, but even his wealth...

  • A Very Private War

    Two planters on the South Pacific island of New Britain are joined in their perilous mission against the Japanese by natives both loyal and treacherous, a beautiful mixed-blood medic, an expatriate German priest, and an openly hostile, wounded Japane...

  • The Golden Sabre

    This volume is produced from digital images created by Internet Archive for The New York Public Library. The Internet Archive and The New York Public Library seek to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes...

  • The Faraway Drums

    In 1911 in Delhi, King George V is on the brink of being crowned emperor of India. While on duty near Simla, a handsome British intelligence officer, Clive Farnol, finds a plot to assassinate His Majesty. Meanwhile, a young Bostonian reporter, Bridie...

  • Spearfield's Daughter

    Cleo Spearfield, daughter of famous Australian senator Sylvester Spearfield, travels to Vietnam as a war correspondent in order to prove her own aptitude and independence. But when her story of a massacre there is kept silent by her editors back home...

  • High Road to China

  • The Green Helmet

  • The Fall of an Eagle



  • The Phoenix Tree

    A novel about spies set in Japan during the closing months of World War II. Early in 1945, Navy lieutenant Kenji Minato, interned as a Japanese spy, offers to spy for US Intelligence. In Tokyo his mission is to identify members of a Peace Faction. Am...

  • A Flight of Chariots

  • City of Fading Light

    The time is the last two weeks of peace in the summer of 1939. The place is Berlin, the most brilliantly lit city in Europe. Cathleen O’Dea has come from Hollywood to Germany to star in a film. But that is not the real purpose of her visit. She is ...

  • Dragons at the Party

    • / Law Enforcement
    • Buy Buy
    A Scobie Malone Mystery - 4

    It is Bicentenary year and Australia is having the party of its lifetime. Detective Inspector Scobie Malone, hero of three previous Cleary books and the most human of cops, would much rather be out on Sydney Harbor with his family, watching the fun. ...

  • The Climate of Courage

  • Justin Bayard

  • Babylon South

    • / Law Enforcement
    • Buy Buy
    A Scobie Malone Mystery - 6

    In 1966 Sir Walter Springfellow, head of Australian intelligence, vanished mysteriously and without a trace. As a young constable, Scobie Malone investigated the disappearance. Years later some bones are found up in the hills which are presumed to be...

  • Now and Then, Amen

    A Scobie Malone Mystery - 5

    A nun is found murdered on the steps of the Quality Couch, Sydney's most expensive house of ill repute. She was Sister Mary Magdalene, an idealistic young woman who previously had worked at a mission in Nicaragua. Detective Inspector Scobie Malone, t...

  • Murder Song

    A Scobie Malone Mystery - 7

    A young woman named Mardi Jack is killed by a sniper’s bullet in a Sydney apartment apparently owned by a wealthy businessman, Boru O’Brien, who has ties to seedy goings-on and to the prime minister’s wife. O’Brien, the real target of the ass...

  • Dark Summer

    • / Law Enforcement
    • Buy Buy
    A Scobie Malone Mystery - 9

    In the heat of an Australian summer, Inspector Scobie Malone of the New South Wales police finds the body of a promising informer, Scungy Grime, floating face down in his family’s backyard swimming pool. Scobie is investigating Sydney’s major dru...



  • Pride's Harvest

    A Scobie Malone Mystery - 8

    In the town of Collamundra, Australia, the corpse of Japanese farm manager Kenji Sagawa is found in one of his cotton mill’s threshing machines. The prosperity that his company had brought to the small town had also engendered racial tension, and D...

  • Bleak Spring

    A Scobie Malone Mystery - 10

    When local solicitor Will Rockne is found in his car by his wife -- shot through the head -- it seems a baffling and motiveless murder. However, Scobie Malone, newly assigned to the case, has his suspicions. Despite his daughter Claire’s shy romanc...

  • Autumn Maze

    A Scobie Malone Mystery - 11

    When the Sydney police minister’s son falls twenty floors to his death, the politics of murder ripple the city like a boulder into a pool. Caught in the wash is Detective Inspector Scobie Malone, as he uncovers an elaborate financial scheme, a seri...

  • Winter Chill

    A Scobie Malone Mystery - 12

    It begins one rainy dawn: Orville Brame, prominent lawyer and president of the American Bar Association, is found shot through the heart, slumped in a monorail, silently circling downtown Sydney. The next day, the body of a security guard is fished o...

  • Endpeace

    A Scobie Malone Mystery - 13

    When Scobie Malone and his wife are invited to a dinner party thrown by the wealthy Huxwoods and the patriarch of the family turns up murdered following the festivities, Scobie finds himself caught up in the mysteries of wealth, power, and family....

  • Five-Ring Circus

    A Scobie Malone Mystery - 14

    It’s a special occasion Down Under and the notoriously frugal Inspector Malone is taking his family to dinner at one of Sydney’s finest Chinese restaurants. But their gala turns grisly when a masked assassin enters and guns down three men at a ne...

  • Dilemma

    A Scobie Malone Mystery - 15

    Australian detective Scobie Malone is asked to investigate what seems like an easy case: Norma Glaze has been strangled in her bedroom and her husband Ron has disappeared. What appears cut-and-dry on the surface is complicated by the fact that the ni...

  • The Bear Pit

    A Scobie Malone Mystery - 16

    Scobie Malone's job as a homicide cop is to try to keep murder at bay. His job as a father is to keep his family safe. Now, as the eyes of the world are turning toward his city, both of Malone's careers are in serious jeopardy. An important politicia...

  • Yesterday's Shadow

    A Scobie Malone Mystery - 17

    Love never dies ... unless a killer intervenes. The Hotel Southern Savoy has become the reluctant host to two corpses on a single night -- and Homicide Inspector Scobie Malone knows this investigation will be a nightmare the moment he arrives. The...

  • Degrees of Connection

    Once again Scobie Malone and Ron Clements delve into the dark side of Sydney and bring us a story as fresh as this morning's headlines. From Sylvania Waters to Rooty Hill to harbourside penthouses, they negotiate a lethal world of corporate crime, do...



  • Morning's Gone

    A story of the demands of a life in politics - Matt Durban is a seasoned politician, tipped to lead his party. His wife, Carmel, has been a loyal partner, but shes also got controversial political views of her own... And there are those who will stop...

  • Four-Cornered Circle

    How far would you go for someone you loved? - Twins Marie and Louise have always been close, but with Maries life on the up, Louise cant help but feel what, exactly? If not envious, than at least a little put out that her own situation divorced and d...

  • The Easy Sin

    Scobie Malone is leaving the Homicide and Serial Offenders Unit of the Sydney police, and his last investigation could be his most bizarre. When a housemaid is found dead in a dotcom millionaire's penthouse, Scobie suspects a kidnap that's gone wrong...

  • A Different Turf

  • Just Let Me Be

  • Miss Ambar Regrets

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    Adele Amber dreams of being a famous actress. Young, beautiful and ambitious, her life is focussed on getting ahead. Jack is a television reporter, a man with an eye for the good things in life and a self-confessed romantic. Their affair progresses q...

Award-Winning Books by Jon Cleary

Peter's Pence
1975 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Novel


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Jon Cleary has published 45 books.

Jon Cleary does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Just Let Me Be, was published in December 2021.

The first book by Jon Cleary, Back of Sunset, was published in January 1960.

Yes. Jon Cleary has 1 series.
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