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Amaze Your Friends

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Amaze Your Friends
AuthorPeter Doyle
LanguageEnglish
GenreCrime novel
PublisherRandom House, Melbourne
Publication date
1998
Publication placeAustralia
Media typePrint Paperback
Pages250 pp
ISBN0-09-183656-5 (first edition, paperback)
OCLC38833698
Preceded byGet Rich Quick 
Followed byThe Devil's Jump 

Amaze Your Friends is a 1998 Ned Kelly Award-winning novel by Australian author Peter Doyle.[1]

This is book 2 in the author's Billy Glasheen series of novels.[2]

Synopsis

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Set in Sydney in the 1950s this novel follows Billy Glasheen as he attempts to raise ten thousand pounds to pay off a corrupt police officer. If he can't make that in six months he'll find himself six feet under.

Critical reception

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Damo Gay, writing on the Australian Crime Fiction HQ website noted: "Amaze Your Friends is a dark hardboiled crime story that will take a man and subject him to all manner of adversity. It's set in Sydney as the 1950s are drawing to a close, following the attempts of a small-time hustler to come up with some money as quickly as possible. It's a wild and unpredictable ride through the low-life haunts of the city's drug-dens, dealing with corrupt cops while trying to maintain a string of dodgy mail-order scams...At times it's crude and at others it's graphic, but it's most definitely an entertaining read."[3]

Awards

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References

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  1. ^ "Amaze Your Friends by Peter Doyle". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 26 June 2024.
  2. ^ "Austlit — Amaze Your Friends by Peter Doyle". Austlit. Retrieved 26 June 2024.
  3. ^ ""Amaze Your Friends by Peter Doyle"". Australian Crime Fiction HQ. Retrieved 26 June 2024.
  4. ^ "1999 Ned Kelly Award Winners". Australian Crime Writers. Archived from the original on 27 March 2016. Retrieved 26 June 2024.