title: Dilemma: A Scobie Malone Mystery
author:  Jon Cleary 
description: "Enough plot twists and conspiracy-making ingredients to satisfy the most demanding aficionado of the genre." -- <i>--<I>Irish Times</I></i><br /><br />"The Malone stories come alive through their setting...Cleary's writing is seamless and his plots imaginative and mature." -- <i>--<I>Miami Herald</I></i><br /><br />"The business of a novelist is to tell a story. Jon Cleary has that talent in abundance." -- <i>--<I>Sunday Express</I></i><br /><br />"We happily pitch ourselves into Scobie Malone's wonderful adventures in Aussie-land...real thrills and surprising laughs." -- <i>--<I>New York Times</I></i><br /><br />"When the ruminants and lucre-chasers are growing lichen on library shelves, Jon Cleary will continue to be read." -- <i>--<I>Los Angeles Times</I></i><br /><br />"Wonderful adventures in Aussie-land . . . real thrills and surprising laughs." -- <i>The New York Times</i>
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  YESTERDAY’S SHADOW
  
  
  The Scobie Malone Series
  
  
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  Jon Cleary
  
  
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  FOR CATE
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © 2001 by Jon Cleary
  
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  
  No part of this book may be reproduced in any form
  
  
  without permission in writing from the publisher.
  
  
  First ebook edition 2013 by AudioGO. All Rights Reserved.
  
  
  Trade ISBN 978-1-62064-813-1
  
  
  Library ISBN 978-1-62460-139-2
  
  
  Cover photo © TK/[iStock.com](http://iStock.com).
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  CONTENTS
  
  
  [CHAPTER 1](05_CHAPTER.html#id_5)
  
  
  [CHAPTER 2](06_CHAPTER.html#id_35)
  
  
  [CHAPTER 3](07_CHAPTER.html#id_65)
  
  
  [CHAPTER 4](08_CHAPTER.html#id_86)
  
  
  [CHAPTER 5](09_CHAPTER.html#id_110)
  
  
  [CHAPTER 6](10_CHAPTER.html#id_148)
  
  
  [CHAPTER 7](11_CHAPTER.html#id_170)
  
  
  [CHAPTER 8](12_CHAPTER.html#id_191)
  
  
  [CHAPTER 9](13_CHAPTER.html#id_214)
  
  
  [CHAPTER 10](14_CHAPTER.html#id_244)
  
  
  [CHAPTER 11](15_CHAPTER.html#id_259)
  
  
  [CHAPTER 12](16_CHAPTER.html#id_268)
  
  
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