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Dedication

"For Anita and Nicholas : true believers."

Awards

• Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing, Best First Novel, 1997: joint winner³

Publication history

• Also published in USA (in 2005 by MacAdam/Cage), in Canada (in 2006 by Anchor Canada), in the UK (in 2007 by Quercus) and in the Netherlands, in a Dutch-language edition (in 2002 by De Boekerij) with a translation by Paul Witte.⁴

Television adaptation

• This novel was adapted into an Australian television movie Jack Irish: Bad Debts in 2016, which was directed by Jeffrey Walker, from a script by Peter Temple, and featuring Guy Pearce in the lead role. ⁵

Reviews

• Publishers Weekly⁶
• Reviewing the Evidence⁷

References

1. "Bad Debts". Austlit. Retrieved 11 June 2023. https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/C89544 ↩

2. "Jack Irish by Peter Temple". Austlit. Retrieved 11 June 2023. https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/C469822 ↩

3. "Previous Winners: Best Fiction". Australian Crime Writers Association. Retrieved 11 June 2023. https://www.austcrimewriters.com/previous-winners-best-fiction ↩

4. "Bad Debts". Austlit. Retrieved 11 June 2023. https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/C89544 ↩

5. "Jack Irish Series 1". ABC. Retrieved 11 June 2023. https://iview.abc.net.au/show/jack-irish/series/1 ↩

6. "Bad Debts". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 11 June 2023. https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781596921290 ↩

7. "Bad Debts". Reviewing the Evidence. Retrieved 11 June 2023. http://www.reviewingtheevidence.com/review.html?id=6771 ↩