The Brush-Off is a 1996 Australian crime thriller novel, written by Shane Maloney . It is the second novel in a series of crime thrillers following the character of Murray Whelan, as he investigates crimes in the Melbourne area in the course of trying to keep his job with the Australian Labor Party .
3-598: The novel was a co-winner for the Crime Writing, Best Australian Crime Novel Award at the Ned Kelly Awards in 1997. It has been translated into German (2000), Japanese (2002) and French (2004). In 2004, The Brush-Off was adapted into a television movie by Huntaway Films and the Seven Network as part of The Murray Whelan Series . The screenplay was written by John Clarke and directed by Sam Neill . David Wenham
6-551: The crime fiction and true crime genres. They were established in 1996 by the Crime Writers Association of Australia to reward excellence in the field of crime writing within Australia. The genre of crime writing has long been popular, but it was not until the early 1990s that a local growth of writing within the genre occurred in Australia. By the middle of the decade support for the field had grown sufficiently that it
9-542: Was cast as Murray Whelan (reprising his role from the previous film Stiff ), with a supporting cast that included Mick Molloy , Deborah Kennedy and Steve Bisley . This article about a crime novel of the 1990s is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . See guidelines for writing about novels . Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page . Ned Kelly Awards The Ned Kelly Awards (named for bushranger Ned Kelly ) are Australia's leading literary awards for crime writing in both
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