title: Open File (Cliff Hardy series)
author:  Peter Corris 
description: Cliff Hardy, the Australian private investigator, has had his license revoked. With a bit of money put aside and no pressing matters to attend to, he decides to take a trip and perhaps think about what he might want to do with himself, now that he has no career. While hes packing up some old papers, he comes across an open case from the late 1980s. It was a particularly intricate case that began with a missing-persons investigation; remembering it now, Hardy is transported back to the (relatively) early days of his career, when he was younger, brasher, and perhaps a bit more foolhardy. After Appeal Denied (2008), readers might have wondered if the Hardy series was coming to an end. Thankfully, this doesnt appear to be the case, although this placeholder novel (which takes us out of sequence, into the past) could be the authors way of figuring out in what direction he wants to take the series. Whatever the reason for the journey down memory lane, fans of this consistently entertaining series will be thrilled to see that Hardy doesnt appear to be going anywhere just yet. --David Pitt
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  **Wimmera Gold**
  
  
  **By Peter Corris**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © 1994, Peter Corris,
  
  
  First published by Bantam books, Australia, 1994
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Peter Corris was born in Stawell, Victoria in 1942. He has worked as a
  lecturer and researcher in history, as well as a freelance writer and
  journalist, specialising in sports writing and personality profiles. In the
  late 1960s and early 1970s he travelled in the Pacific Islands, including
  Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Fiji. The author of many books about
  the Sydney-based private eye Cliff Hardy, he has also written spy novels, a
  social history of prize-fighting in Australia, quiz books, radio and
  television scripts and co-wrote the life of eye surgeon Fred Hollows. He has
  written several successful historical novels, _The Gulliver Fortune,
  Naismith's Dominion_ and _The Brothers Craft_.
  
  
  Peter Corris is married to the writer Jean Bedford, has three daughters and
  lives in Sydney and on the Illawarra coast.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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