Coorparoo Blues & The Irish Fandango

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It's Brisbane in 1943. A provincial city is now the main staging post of the war in the Pacific. Inevitably the social, sexual and racial tensions created by the presence of US troops bring all kinds of mayhem to the fore. Into this fray walks Jack Munroe, a P.I. with a nose for trouble. Hired by a knockout blonde to find her missing husband, he turns over a few rocks and soon the questions - and the bodies - are piling up. Jack forges through the dockside bars and brothels of his roiling city to crack the case. A murky tale based on actual events during WW2.

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Gritty fun . . . great historical detail of wartime Australia mixed with sex and violence . . . keep[s] the pages turning.The Courier-Mail (Brisbane)

Hard-boiled fans will welcome Australian author Manson's two novellas introducing hard-drinking, hard-loving PI Jack Munro, who has a penchant for championing the underdog on the mean streets of WWII-era Brisbane.Publishers Weekly

Author Bio

G. S. Manson, former meat-packer, barman, rock journalist, demolition man, porno salesman, roller-disco mechanic, and debt collector, now divides his time between laying down hypnotic funk grooves as half of indigenous trance band GURIGURU and trying to run an organic pecan farm. He also has no trouble walking the mean streets of his own mind as a crime writer with a uniquely Australian voice.