''Helga's Web'' was a 1970 novel by Australian author Jon Cleary, the second to feature his detective hero Scobie Malone. Cleary did not originally intend to use the character again but wanted to write about the construction of the new

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Adaptation

The novel was adapted into a film as '' Scobie Malone'' (1975).

References

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