''Helga's Web'' was a 1970 novel by Australian author

Jon Cleary Jon Stephen Cleary (22 November 191719 July 2010) was an Australian writer and novelist. He wrote numerous books, including '' The Sundowners'' (1951), a portrait of a rural family in the 1920s as they move from one job to the next, and '' The ...

, the second to feature his detective hero

Scobie Malone Scobie Malone is a fictional Sydney homicide detective created by Australian novelist Jon Cleary. History Named after the jockey Scobie Breasley, Malone made his first appearance in Cleary's 1966 novel '' The High Commissioner''. Cleary says h ...

. 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.Jon Cleary Interviewed by Stephen Vagg: Oral History
at National Film and Sound Archive

Adaptation

The novel was adapted into a film as ''

'' (1975).

References

External links

''Helga's Web''
at AustLit (subscription required) {{Jon Cleary 1970 Australian novels Novels set in Sydney William Collins, Sons books William Morrow and Company books Novels by Jon Cleary