Peter Corris Books in Order

Peter Corris has written 77 books, published between 1973 and 2017. The first book is Passage, Port and Plantation: A History of Solomon Islands Labour Migration, 1870-1914 (1973) and the newest is Win, Lose or Draw (2017). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books: 77
Published: 1973–2017
Pages on record: 13,244 in 57 of 77 books
Reading time: 221–331 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 13,244 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 57 of 77 titles with a page count on record.

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Cliff Hardy is a Sydney private investigator and the character Peter Corris is known for, beginning with The Dying Trade (1980). Corris (1942-2018) worked as an academic, historian and journalist in Australia, and was described as the Godfather of contemporary Australian crime-writing. Ray Crawley, Richard Browning and Luke Dunlop head further series. The listing holds 77 titles dated 1973 to 2017, opening with a history of Solomon Islands labour migration and closing with Win, Lose or Draw (2017).

Source: Wikidata

How many Peter Corris books are there?

Peter Corris has 77 books, released between 1973 and 2017. They include 4 series and 15 titles listed outside any series.

Peter Corris books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Cliff Hardy in order

43 books

1. The Dying Trade
1. Heroin Annie and Other Cliff Hardy Stories
2. White Meat
2. Man in the Shadows
3. The Marvellous Boy
3. The Big Drop
4. The Empty Beach
4. Burn, and Other Stories
5. Heroin Annie
5. Taking Care Of Business
6. Make Me Rich
6. Forget Me If You Can
and 31 more in the table above

Ray Crawley in order

8 books

1. Pokerface
2. The Baltic Business
3. The Kimberly Killing
4. The Cargo Club
5. The Azanian Action
6. The Japanese Job
7. The Time Trap
8. The Vietnam Volunteer

Richard Browning in order

8 books

1. Beverly Hills Browning
2. Browning Takes Off
3. Box Office Browning
4. Browning In Buckskin
5. Browning P.I.
6. Browning Battles On
7. Browning Sahib
8. Browning Without a Cause

Luke Dunlop in order

3 books

1. Set Up
2. Cross Off
3. Get Even

Standalone books

15 books

15 Peter Corris titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Peter Corris books in order?

You only need to read Peter Corris books in order within each series: the books listed here span 4 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.

Where to start with Peter Corris

Start with Passage, Port and Plantation: A History of Solomon Islands Labour Migration, 1870-1914 (1973), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Peter Corris book?

Win, Lose or Draw (2017) is the newest Peter Corris book released so far.

Is there a new Peter Corris book coming?

No next Peter Corris book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Peter Corris at a glance

Died: Peter Corris died in 2018, according to Wikidata.
Last book: The newest book credited to Peter Corris on record dates from 2017.
Release pace: Peter Corris books have appeared more than one a year on average.
Length: 13,244 pages across the 57 of 77 books with a recorded length, a median of 224 pages each.
Busiest decade: Most Peter Corris books, 28 of 77, were published in the 1990s.

When Peter Corris books were published

Publication distribution by decade, showing when Peter Corris titles appeared. 1990s was the most productive decade with 28 titles.

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

77 books total across 5 decades. Decade reflects the year each title was first catalogued.

What the Peter Corris books are about

47 of the 77 Peter Corris books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: private investigators is tagged on 32 of 47. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

Private investigators 32 of 47 books
Hardy, cliff (fictitious character) 19 of 47 books
Mystery & detective 18 of 47 books
Cliff Hardy (Fictitious character) 15 of 47 books
Australia 9 of 47 books
Sydney (n.s.w.) 4 of 47 books
Investigation 3 of 47 books
Murder 3 of 47 books
Australian Detective and mystery stories 2 of 47 books
Australian fiction 2 of 47 books