Bad Debts, Dead Point was the recipient of the Ned Kelly Award for Crime Writing, in 2001. The book has a total of 275 pages, and was published by Bantam Books in 2000. In Dead Point, Jack Irish is tasked with locating the missing Robbie Colbourne, who later shows up dead in the local morgue. Irish must solve the various mysteries which occur along the way, including the circumstances which led the occasional barman to disappear. White Dog is Temple's final book in the Jack Irish series, and the third book in the series to be awarded a Ned Kelly Award for Crime Fiction. Published in 2003 by Text Publishing, the book has a total of 337 pages. In White Dog, a property developer in Irish's hometown of Melbourne is murdered. His ex-girlfriend becomes one of the main suspects as Irish attempts to solve the murder mystery, unveiling secrets and even more complications along the way. Irish must investigate whether she is as guilty as she seems. Awards In 2010, Peter Temple won the Miles Franklin Award for his novel Truth. He has also won five Ned Kelly Awards for crime fiction, the latest in 2006 for The Broken Shore, which also won the Colin Roderick Award for best Australian book and the Australian Book Publishers' Award for best general fiction. The Broken Shore also won the Crime Writers' Association Duncan Lawrie Dagger (Gold Dagger) in 2007. Temple is the first Australian to win a Gold Dagger. ABC Television broadcast an adapted telemovie of The Broken Shore on 2 February 2014. Personal life Temple was married to Anita and had a son, Nicholas. He died after a brief battle with cancer in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, on 8 March 2018 at the age of 71. Awards and nominations Bibliography Jack Irish novels Bad Debts (1996) Black Tide (1999) Dead Point (2000) White Dog (2003) Other novels An Iron Rose (1998) Shooting Star (1999) In the Evil Day (2002) aka Identity Theory The Broken Shore (2005) Truth (2009) References Notes Sources Harrison, Dan (2007) "Australian wins top crime-writing prize" in The Age, 6 July 2007, Accessed 6 July 2007 Peter Temple biography 1946 births 2018 deaths Australian crime writers Australian crime fiction writers Australian mystery writers South African emigrants to Australia Miles Franklin Award winners Ned Kelly Award winners RMIT University faculty Deaths from cancer in Victoria (Australia) 20th-century Australian novelists 21st-century