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Forgotten Australia by Michael Adams

Aug 28, 202619:28Society & Culture

Aussie writer Charles Shaw came from the school of hard knocks to create a true-blue noir antihero in a series of novels that were internationally popular and compared with the work of hardboiled master Mickey Spillane....

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