Helga's Web [SEP] series
Helga's Web
Helga's Web was a 1970 novel by Australian author Jon Cleary, the second to feature his detective hero Scobie Malone.
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.
Adaptation.
The novel was adapted into a film as "Scobie Malone" (1975).
External links.
- "Helga's Web" at AustLit (subscription required
and turned into a film, Cleary did not originally intend to create a series around Malone. However he brought the character back later for "Helga's Web" (1970) as a means to explore the construction of the Sydney Opera House, then for "Ransom" (1973). There was a long gap before he started using the detective again, but once he did he wrote Malone novels regularly from 1987 onwards until the end of his writing career.
Cleary and his wife used to travel two months every