Browning Without a Cause - Peter Corris
Imprint Blacklist ISBN 1 875892 22 2
224pp AU$12.95

The eighth -- and final -- Browning!!!

Browning is just about past it: out of work, off his horse, relying on the income of his wife. But the game's not up yet, and when Browning meets James Dean, and ends up on the set of the surly kid's latest movie, along with Rock Hudson and Liz Taylor, the movie's not the only thing likely to be shot. Fast paced, droll as always, with the bonus of movie nostalgia. From the moment James Dean roars into the picture on his 'sickle', Browning is in trouble, but the odd-couple allliance he and Dean enter into so they can both get out of hot water, provides the frame for the kind of action you can expect from a Corris book. And it's the resolution of all Browning's adventures, the final episode.

Peter Corris's characters, Browning and Cliff Hardy, are without their match in Australian writing. Following their lives is like trying to give up a habit you've become very fond of. Why bother? Corris is Sydney personified. Trained as a historian, literary editor of the National Times for a time, he is Australia's most popular crime writer, his own admiration for the books of Raymond Chandler putting him on the thriller path at an early age.