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C.S. Boag

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Born

in Australia

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Crime, Classics, Biography

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Raymond Chandler

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Over a long writing career, C. S. Boag's work has featured in numerous publications, including The Sydney Morning Herald, the former Sydney Sun newspaper and The Bulletin magazine. His first story appeared in Sydney University's Honi Soit magazine and a number of his short stories have been published since.
A former columnist and feature writer, he is a winner of the Walter Stone Memorial Prize for Literature. In the Mister Rainbow series the Hood with No Hands, Death of a Ladies' Man, Horses for Corpses and Bullets at the Ballet have already been released by Xoum publishers, with The Cock Robin Killer to be released later this year.
C. S. has travelled extensively and lived both here and overseas. He feels he speaks enough French not to die ...more

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Average rating: 4.29 · 140 ratings · 30 reviews · 9 distinct works

	Mister Rainbow in the Case of the Cock Robin Killer (Mister Rainbow, #5) 4.44 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hood with No Hands (Mister Rainbow, #1) 3.90 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Case of the Death of a Ladies Man (Mister Rainbow, #2) 3.62 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Case of the Horses for Corpses (Mister Rainbow, #3) 4.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Case of the Bullets at the Ballet (Mister Rainbow, #4) 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	MISTER RAINBOW: The Omnibus Edition (Vol. 1) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mister Rainbow in the Case of the Morgue the Merrier (Mister Rainbow, #6) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mister Rainbow in the Case of The Nightmare in Nimbin (#7) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mister Rainbow: The Omnibus Edition (Vol. 2) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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What is Rainbow?

A lot of water's gone under the bridge since i last wrote an entry. If you write for a living you don't feel like doing it in your spare time.

I've got older. Funny thing to say, I know, but you're a different person when you're old just like you as a child are barely recognizable in the person you became.

Which is a roundabout way of saying I've got arthritis, my hair's falling out and various imp Read more of this blog post »

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“There's not much room left in a cabriolet after you've factored in two hoods, the armoury, a suitcase, the victim and the body odour”
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“... the dame stretches, revealing the fact that she sleeps in much the same state as her oysters.”
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“I like two men, two guns that kind of thing, I don't do subtle.”
― C.S. Boag, The Hood with No Hands

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“There's not much room left in a cabriolet after you've factored in two hoods, the armoury, a suitcase, the victim and the body odour”
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“To care about words, to have a stake in what is written, to believe in the power of books - this overwhelms the rest, and beside it one's life becomes very small.”
― Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy

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“At the serried-eyed time of eventide, Kings Cross is` like a madman with the pills wearing off - quiet for the moment, but you know what's ahead so you quickly get yourself elsewhere.”
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“Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.”
― Dorothea Lange

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“You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
― Amy Bloom

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