Helga's Web

Book by Jon Cleary

Helga's Web
First UK edition
Author	Jon Cleary
Language	English
Series	Scobie Malone series
Genre	Detective
Publisher	Collins (UK) William Morrow (US)
Publication date	1970
Publication place	Australia
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]^[2]

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.^[3]

Reception

The London Daily Telegraph called it "absorbing to the end."^[4]

The Sydney Morning Herald called it a "first class, exciting, immensely readable thriller."^[5]

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.
^ Ruskin, Pamela (12 April 1975). "The little bloke who reached the top". The Age. p. 19.
^ Jon Cleary Interviewed by Stephen Vagg: Oral History at National Film and Sound Archive
^ "Criminal records". The Daily Telegraph. 2 July 1970. p. 9.
^ Pringle, John Douglas (8 August 1970). "A body in the Opera House". The Sydney Morning Herald. p. 22.

External links

Helga's Web at AustLit (subscription required)

Works by Jon Cleary

Novels

1940s	These Small Glories (1946) (short stories) You Can't See 'Round Corners (1947) The Long Shadow (1949)
1950s	Just Let Me Be (1950) The Sundowners (1952) The Climate of Courage (1954) Justin Bayard (1955) The Green Helmet (1957) Back of Sunset (1959) Strike Me Lucky (1959)
1960s	North from Thursday (1960) The Country of Marriage (1962) Forests of the Night (1963) A Flight of Chariots (1963) The Fall of an Eagle (1965) The High Commissioner (1966) The Pulse of Danger (1966) The Long Pursuit (1967) Season of Doubt (1968) Remember Jack Hoxie (1969)
1970s	Helga's Web (1970) Mask of the Andes (1971) Man's Estate (1972) Ransom (1973) Peter's Pence (1974) The Safe House (1975) A Sound of Lightning (1976) High Road to China (1977) Vortex (1978) The Beaufort Sisters (1979)
1980s	A Very Private War (1980) The Faraway Drums (1981) The Golden Sabre (1981) Spearfield's Daughter (1982) The Phoenix Tree (1984) The City of Fading Light (1985) Dragons at the Party (1987) Now and Then, Amen (1988) Babylon South (1989)
1990s	You, the Jury (1990) (reprint of 1950 Just Let Me Be) Murder Song (1990) Pride's Harvest (1991) Dark Summer (1992) Bleak Spring (1993) Autumn Maze (1994) Winter Chill (1995) Endpeace (1996) A Different Turf (1997) Five Ring Circus (1998) Dilemma (1999)
2000s	Bear Pit (2000) Yesterday's Shadow (2001) The Easy Sin (2002) Degrees of Connection (2003) Miss Ambar Regrets (2004) Morning's Gone (2006) Four-Cornered Circle (2007)