PETER CORRIS is known as the ‘godfather’ of Australian crime fiction through his Cliff Hardy detective stories. He published in many other areas, writing a history of boxing in Australia, spy novels, historical novels, a collection of short stories about golf, and co-authoring an autobiography of Professor Fred Hollows (see www.petercorris.net). In 1999, Peter Corris was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Crime Writers Association of Australia, and in 2009 the Ned Kelly Award for Best Fiction for Deep Water. He was married to writer Jean Bedford and lived in Sydney for most of his life.

Peter Corris’s Cliff Hardy novels include The Empty Beach, Master’s Mates, The Coast Road, Saving Billie, The Undertow, Appeal Denied, The Big Score, Open File, Deep Water, Torn Apart, Follow the Money, Comeback, The Dunbar Case, Silent Kill, Gun Control and That Empty Feeling. Win, Lose or Draw, published in 2017, was his forty-second and final Cliff Hardy book.