Stiff - Shane Maloney

Title: Stiff
Author: Shane Maloney
Publisher: Text Publishing
Format: Paperback
First Published: 1994
ISBN: 1-875847-00-6

Category: Crime Fiction / Australian Fiction

Condition: Good second-hand condition with general shelf wear, edge wear, and light creasing from age and reading. Pages remain clean and binding is solid. Please see photos for the exact copy available.

Stiff is the debut novel introducing Murray Whelan, the wisecracking political staffer and reluctant investigator at the centre of Shane Maloney’s cult Australian crime series.

Set in Melbourne’s working-class suburbs and tangled world of unions, local politics, ethnic rivalries, and backroom deals, the novel follows Whelan as what begins as political chaos quickly spirals into murder, conspiracy, and absurd danger. Fast-paced, darkly funny, and sharply observant, Stiff blends noir crime fiction with distinctly Australian humour and political satire.