Quote of the day
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
Peter Corris
Born: May 8, 1942
Died: August 30, 2018 (aged 76)
Bio: Peter Robert Corris was an Australian academic, historian, journalist and a novelist of historical and crime fiction. As crime fiction writer, he has been described as "the Godfather of contemporary Australian crime-writing".
Known for:
- The Dying Trade: Text Classics (1980)
- The Greenwich Apartments (1986)
- O'Fear (1990)
- The Washington Club (1997)
- Wet Graves (1991)