Education
Maloney was educated at Christian Brothers" College, Street Kilda.
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Don’t you just hate it when someone tries to kill you and you don’t know why? Single father Murray Whelan thinks the life of a parent and political operative is complicated enough. His ex is staking out the moral high ground for a custody battle, and rumors of an early election are starting to fly in the upper echelons of Australia’s Labor party. When a Turk is found snap-frozen in a local meat plant, Murray cops the job to head off possible fallout for his boss, Charlene Wills, a member of Parliament and the Minister for Industry. But the meat industry smells decidedly fishy when Murray starts asking too many questions. Suddenly things are spinning fatally out of control as he finds himself the object of an elaborate intimidation plot: drugs planted under the bed, fascist funeral rites, a killer car, and bloodsucking parasites. That’s when red-hot Ayisha, the Turkish Welfare League’s answer to activism, knocks on his door. Stiff brings back the wisecracking ace of reluctant detectives in a mystery that is fast, furious, and very, very funny. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fictionnovels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
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(" Murder is a contact sport . . . Murray Whelan, the wise...)
" Murder is a contact sport . . . Murray Whelan, the wisecracking ace of reluctant detectives, is back on the mean streets of Melbourne, and this time the occasion is the international competition to host the Summer Olympics: Let the crimes begin! When the Lords of Five Rings-the International Olympics Committee-come to town to choose a site for the Summer Games, everyone knows the money will start to fly and ambitions boil. Murray, adviser to the Minister for Water Supply and the Arts, would just as soon steer clear of the frenzy and confront his inner beanbag on an exercise bike. Besides, in his new health kick, he needs all his concentration to count the cigarettes he'd rather not be smoking. And wouldn't it be good to have the time to spend with his son, Red, for whom distance, his ex, and a child's inevitable growth have made him something of a stranger? But the future of the government depends on its bid, and Murray is recruited to help the cause. Of course, not long after he joins, a young athlete is found dead, and Murray learns that murder is a contact sport. He is soon mixing it up with a wily Aboriginal activist and his ex-con sidekick, a body-building psychopath, a gorgeously leotarded aerobics instructor, and the cool, ever enigmatic Dr. Phillipa Verstak."
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Maloney was educated at Christian Brothers" College, Street Kilda.
He started writing after studying politics and Asian history at the Australian National University. He has worked in a wide range of situations, having held the positions of: Director of the Melbourne Comedy Festival (1987–1989), Cultural Director of Melbourne"s Olympic bid and swimming pool lifeguard. Maloney lives in Melbourne.
The novels are ordered chronologically and follow Whelan"s progression through the Labor Party"s ranks during the late 1980s and early 1990s at a time when the Labor Party was in power at both a federal and state level in Victoria.
Each novel follows the protagonist, Murray Whelan, as he attempts to uncover the truth behind murders, fraudulent schemes and shady dealings in and around the suburbs of Melbourne. The series of novels trace Whelan"s career and in each novel he is older, wiser and has risen to a more senior position.
Maloney described the progress as, "episodic biography of Murray Whelan as he falls up the political ladder". The novels Maloney writes have a definite sense of place.
Maloney has said that he wanted "Melbourne a character in the stories".
His distinctly Australian writing style stems from his prodigious use of local vernacular and dry wit, which pervade his writing. Maloney is a long-term resident of Brunswick, a suburb in Melbourne"s inner north. Stiff and The Brush Office were filmed, with David Wenham playing Whelan, and screened on Australian television in 2004.
The first two novels in the, Stiff and The Brush-Office, were adapted for screen by John Clarke and shown as telemovies on the Seven Network in 2004 starring David Wenham in the lead role.
Shane Maloney was the subject of a 2005 Archibald Prize painting by artist Rick Amor.
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Although his motives are usually genuine - protecting his own tenuous employment and sparing his minister from political death - Whelan inevitably ends up in over his head after implicating himself and faces enmity from the criminals, the police, party colleagues and his estranged wife who wants custody of their son.
The six titles in the Murray Whelan crime thriller series (Stiff,The Brush-Office, Nice Try, The Big Ask, Something Fishy and most recently Sucked In) all feature the eponymous Murray Whelan, initially as a Labor Party staffer who provides support to a Victorian State Government minister but later as a member of the Victorian State parliament.