Dead Point

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Dead Point
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First edition
Author Peter Temple
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
SeriesJack Irish series
Genre crime novel
Publisher Bantam, Australia
Publication date
2000
Media typePrint (paperback)
Pages275 pp
ISBN 1-86325-222-3
OCLC 48835300

Dead Point (2000) is a Ned Kelly Award-winning novel by Australian author Peter Temple. This is the third novel in the author's Jack Irish series.

Contents

Dedication

"For Gerhard and Karin, dear friends, for all the good times: Kom dans, Klaradyn."

Awards

Notes

This novel has also been published in the UK (in 2008 by Quercus as part of Bad Debts: A Jack Irish Omnibus) and in the Netherlands, in a Dutch-language edition (in 2001 by De Boekerij) with a translation by Paul Witte.

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