Marshall Brown tells these quirky stories about Australians in transit on life's highways and back roads. By turns exciting, humorous, bazarre and nostalgic, Brown's characters offer bites of their complicated lives.

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Marshall Browne

Marshall Browne, born in Melbourne, was a sixth generation Australian. His forebear, a Calcutta merchant of Irish-Persian parentage, arrived in Sydney in 1809, and bought a grazing property near Cabramatta.With other land granted by Governor Macquarie, he settled down to New South Wales life as both merchant and grazier. He was one of the founders of Australia's first bank - The Bank of New South Wales.

Marshall followed several others of the family line into banking. During 1974-81 he was based in Hong Kong. He began writing novels in his spare time, and three with Far East backgrounds were published in London - the best known of which is City of Masks: a thriller set in Hong Kong's back streets and banking boardrooms which was translated into German, and published in Munich. From 1982-1995 he lived variously in London, Melbourne and Bhutan, in a variety of banking roles. He also served as a commando in the Australian forces, and as a paratrooper in the British forces. 

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Series:

Series: Aoki

Series: Franz Schmidt

Series: Inspector Anders

Series: Melbourne Trilogy

Series: Robert Hale

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Submitted by Justine Browne (not verified) on Mon, 05/12/2016 - 04:31 pm

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Hi Austcrimefiction,

Just wanted to let you know that Marshall Browne who passed away on Feb 2014 had finished one of his Anders novels "Inspector Anders and the Prague Dossier" and edited it a couple of times before he died. Australian Scholarly Publishing released it in Australia one 1 December 2016 - the details are at: http://www.scholarly.info/book/524/ 

I hope you have a chance to read it and let your readers know about it. Of course as his daughter I am somewhat biased, but I believe it's a great book.

Kind regards,
Justine Browne (daughter of Marshall Browne)

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