St Kilda Blues - Softcover

Paperback. 3rd edition. It's 1967, the summer of love, and in swinging Melbourne Detective Sergeant Charlie Berlin has been hauled out of exile in the Fraud Squad to investigate the disappearance of a teenage girl, the daughter of a powerful and politically connected property developer. As Berlin's inquiries uncover more missing girls he gets an uneasy feeling he may be dealing with the city's first serial killer.Berlin's investigation leads him through inner-city discothèques, hip photographic studios, the emerging drug culture and into the seedy back streets of St Kilda. The investigation also brings up ghosts of Berlin's past as a bomber pilot and POW in Europe and disturbing memories of the casual murder of a young woman he witnessed on a snow-covered road in Poland in the war's dying days. As in war, some victories come at a terrible cost and Berlin will have to face an awful truth and endure an unimaginable loss before his investigation is over.St Kilda Blues is Geoffrey McGeachin's seventh book and third in the Charlie Berlin series. The first Berlin novel, The Diggers Rest Hotel, won the 2011 Australian Crime Writers Association's Ned Kelly Award for Best Fiction with the follow up book, Blackwattle Creek, also winning the Ned Kelly Award for Best Fiction in 2013. 2014, First edition, first printing. A fine, unmarked copy. Seller Inventory # 16582648

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St Kilda Blues. A Charlie Berlin Novel

McGeachin, Geoffrey

Published by Penguin - Viking, Melbourne, 2014

ISBN 10: 0670075892 ISBN 13: 9780670075898

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Seller: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia

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Soft Cover. Condition: VG+. First Edition. 8vo. original printed paper wraps (slightly rubbed & creased, prev. owner's name to first page); pp. [vi (last blank)], 384 (last blank), [4 (pubs. advts., last blank)]. A very good copy. The third crime novel featuring Charlie Berlin. Seller Inventory # 031608

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