Bad Debts

Bad Debts (1996) is a Ned Kelly Award-winning novel by Australian author Peter Temple.^[1] This is the first novel in the author's Jack Irish series.^[2]

Dedication

"For Anita and Nicholas : true believers."

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.^[1]

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.^[4]

^ ^a ^b "Bad Debts". Austlit. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
^ "Jack Irish by Peter Temple". Austlit. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
^ "Previous Winners: Best Fiction". Australian Crime Writers Association. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
^ "Jack Irish Series 1". ABC. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
^ "Bad Debts". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
^ "Bad Debts". Reviewing the Evidence. Retrieved 11 June 2023.

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