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Mark McShane


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Sydney, Australia
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Mark McShane [b.1930 - 2013] was an Australian author of satire, suspense novels, and crime fiction. Born in Sydney to a family with Gypsy roots, he traveled the world for the first three decades of his life. In 1960, he settled on the island of Mallorca, in the Mediterranean, and decided to write fiction.

His first novel, The Straight and the Crooked, appeared that year but it was his third effort, Seance on a Wet Afternoon, for which he is best known. The story of a strange pair of kidnappers it was made into a well regarded film in 1964 and has been adapted as an opera. His most well known characters are the eccentric Detective Sergeant Norman Pink, and Appleton Porter, an unlikely spy whose often comic adventures McShane chronicled under
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Average rating: 3.9 · 696 ratings · 134 reviews · 50 distinct worksSimilar authors
Sesión en una tarde de lluvia

3.92 avg rating — 633 ratings — published 1961 — 18 editions
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The Crimson Madness of Litt...

3.67 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1966 — 6 editions
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Ill Met by a Fish Shop on G...

3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1968 — 8 editions
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Neutral Shores: Ireland and...

4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2012
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The Singular Case of the Mu...

liked it 3.00 avg rating — 6 ratings6 editions
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The Girl Nobody Knows

3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings3 editions
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Seance for Two

3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1972 — 3 editions
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The man who left well enough

3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1971 — 5 editions
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L'inconnue

4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1980 — 2 editions
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The Passing of Evil

3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1961 — 4 editions
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“the seedy-garish world of back-street London... restless rootless... beautiful, amoral, modern siren of doom in a jungle of dance halls, caffs and pubs.”
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“the seedy-garish world of back-street London... restless rootless... beautiful, amoral, modern siren(s) of doom in a jungle of dance halls, caffs and pubs".”
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