''The Last Days: the Apocryphon of Joe Panther'' is a 1998

Ned Kelly Award The Ned Kelly Awards (named for bushranger Ned Kelly) are Australia's leading literary awards for crime writing in both the crime fiction and true crime genres. They were established in 1996 by the Crime Writers Association of Australia to rewa ...

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Andrew Masterson Andrew Masterson (born 1961 in the United Kingdom) is an Australian author of crime fiction, horror and non-fiction. Masterson emigrated from the UK to Australia in 1968. He has worked as a journalist since 1984 in a number of countries, incl ...

Awards

* Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing, Best First Novel Award, 1999: winner

Reviews

* "Australian Crime Fiction database

* "Tabula Rasa

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