The Diggers Rest Hotel

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The Diggers Rest Hotel
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Author Geoffrey McGeachin
Language English
SeriesCharlie Berlin
Genre Crime novel
Publisher Penguin, Australia
Publication date
2010
Publication place Australia
Media typePrint (Paperback)
Pages316
ISBN 9780670072736
Preceded byDead and Kicking 
Followed by Blackwattle Creek  

The Diggers Rest Hotel (2010) is a crime novel by Australian author Geoffrey McGeachin. It is the first in the author's Charlie Berlin mystery series and won the 2011 Ned Kelly Award.

Contents

Plot summary

Charlie Berlin, a bomber pilot during World War II, rejoins the Melbourne police force after the war and in 1947 he is sent to Albury-Wodonga to investigate a series of violent robberies.

Reviews

Fair Dinkum Crime found the novel to build to be a winner and that the author "has taken care with the historical detail and it gives the novel a great feeling of authenticity". [1]

Awards and nominations

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