Helga's Web

Helga's Web
	First UK edition
Author	Jon Cleary
Country	Australia
Language	English
Series	Scobie Malone series
Genre	Detective
Publisher	Collins (UK); William Morrow (US)
Publication date	1970
Preceded by	The High Commissioner
Followed by	Ransom

Helga's Web was a 1970 novel by Australian author Jon Cleary, the second to feature his detective hero Scobie Malone.^[1]

Cleary did not originally intend to use the character again but wanted to write about the construction of the new Sydney Opera House and thought the detective could be a good way to access that.^[2]

Adaptation[]

The novel was adapted into a film as Scobie Malone (1975).

References[]

^ "Three novels well worth reading". The Canberra Times. 22 August 1970. p. 12. Retrieved 18 October 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
^ Jon Cleary Interviewed by Stephen Vagg: Oral History at National Film and Sound Archive

External links[]

Helga's Web^{[permanent dead link]} at AustLit (subscription required)

[1] "Three novels well worth reading". The Canberra Times. 22 August 1970. p. 12. Retrieved 18 October 2015 – via National Library of Australia.

[Vagg-2] Jon Cleary Interviewed by Stephen Vagg: Oral History at National Film and Sound Archive

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