The Toxteth is a hotel on Glebe Point Road in Sydney. Cliff Hardy probably called it a pub. Hardy was the hero of numerous crime novels by Peter Corris (1942-2018), an academic with a Phd in history from ANU, a journalist and a novelist of historical and crime fiction. He was the doyen of Australian crime-writers, and his most popular books were those featuring Hardy, a knockabout chap, raised in beachside Maroubra, ex-army, law school dropout, insurance investigator turned private eye.
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