num_pages: 393
description: Summer in the city. Murray Whelan is in the undergrowth of the Botanic Gardens having a romantic encounter with the delicious Salina Fleet. Meanwhile, across the park, the body of a disgruntled artist is being fished out of the public art gallery's ornamental moat. Whelan, political spin doctor and artless lover, must ensure there is no fallout for his boss, and in the process stumbles upon a scam to swindle the tax payer, a forgery racket and three beautiful women. As Whelan is drawn ever deeper into this tangled web, his childhood nemesis lurks menacingly on the edge of the action, and people are dropping like flies ...
language: English
title: The Brush Off
titlecomplete: The Brush Off (Murray Whelan, #2)
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, Humor, Politics, Crime, Detective, Literature, Australia, Novels
ratings_count: 470
places: Australia, Melbourne, Victoria
series: Murray Whelan
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Ned Kelly Award
category: Best Fiction
publisher: Canongate Books Ltd