The Brush Off : A Murray Whelan Mystery

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Summary: Read it!!!
Review: Funny, involving, entertaining.Great characters in an Ausralian world of politics and corruption that rings true. Recommended. Also read "Stiff" and "Nice Try" with Murray Whelan.

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Summary: Funny politics in Australia
Review: Meet Murray Whelan, gofer and fixer for the newly appointed Minister of Water and Arts. He has no ideas about arts, but then politics is politics, and how difficult can it be? He finds out without delay, when young artist Marcus Taylor is found floating in the moat in front of the National Gallery. Time for damage control. But then things become increasingly weird. The overpriced picture of a shadowy, and also dead, artist named Victor Szabo. Hold it! Is the picture a fake? Who painted the duplicate? How about all those suave self-made millionaires and their sudden interest in art? Mayhem erupts as everybody tries to cover up their nefarious schemes. And Murray in the thick of it, of course.

The book is presented as a mystery. But that part does not come off too well with all the fun intervening. Rather, it is a send-up comedy about Australian politics and the doers behind the scenes. If you really want to laugh for a few hours, then read this book.

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Summary: Very funny and entertaining book!
Review: This book was excellent. It had a story line and was interesting and funny all at once! Whelan's analogies are excellent.