Mystery Spinner: Text Classics

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The biography of one of the most original and elusive characters in Australian sporting history, by renowned cricket writer Gideon Haigh. In 1950, aged in his mid-thirties, 'tall, shy, shambling' Jack Iverson burst forth from obscurity in suburban Melbourne, 'bowled like no man before' and became a national sensation, then faded from view almost as swiftly. He died in obscurity, in tragic circumstances. In the enthralling Mystery Spinner, first published in 1999, one of the world's best cricket writers goes in search of an enigma- an ordinary man in whom lurked the extraordinary.

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`One of the best cricket biographies I have ever read. * Wisden Cricket Monthly *
`[An] unconventional journeybrilliantly documented. * Courier Mail *
`Even if you dont care for the game you might enjoy itNot your standard sporting biography. * Guardian *
`A delight, a gripping (no pun intended) read, and an object lesson to anyone tempted to try their hand at biography. * ESPNcricinfo *
`Magnificent. * Roar *

Author Bio

Gideon Haigh has been a journalist for three decades, writing mainly about sport and business. He is the author of more than thirty books, among them the award-winning On Warne, Certain Admissions and Stroke of Genius. He lives in Melbourne.