Peter Doyle (writer)

Peter Doyle
Peter Doyle
Born	1951; Maroubra, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation	Novelist
Genre	Detective fiction
Literary movement	Pulp Fiction
Notable works	The Devil's Jump

Peter Doyle (born 1951) is an Australian author, musician, and visual artist. He lives in Newtown, New South Wales, and works for Macquarie University where he teaches Print Media Production and as a part-time curator of Sydney’s Justice and Police Museum.

Biography

Peter Doyle was born in Maroubra, Sydney, New South Wales, and grew up in Sydney's eastern suburbs, which provides much of the setting for his fiction work. He has a Bachelor of Arts (Communications) from UTS and a PhD in Media and Mass Communications on the renderings of virtual space in early popular music recording from Macquarie University (2002). He also maintains a research interest in comics and the graphic novel, the history of twentieth century popular music, as well as crime writing, both in Australia, and overseas.

He worked variously as a taxi driver, musician, and teacher prior to his first publication, Get Rich Quick in 1996, which won him Australia's prestigious Ned Kelly Award for Best First Crime Novel in 1997. He followed this with another successful sequel, Amaze Your Friends, which won him another award, the Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Novel in 1998. His third title, The Devil's Jump, released in 2001, was a prequel, and was set in Sydney in the closing days of World War II.

His curatorial work at the Sydney Justice and Police Museum has seen him curate two major exhibitions, ‘Crimes of Passion’ (2002–2003), and ‘City of Shadows: inner city crime and mayhem, 1912-1948’ (November 2005-February 2007), both of which were social histories of inner-city twentieth century Sydney from the point of view of crime scene photography.

His musical style is a mixture of Sydney blues, rockabilly, country and pub rock scenes, and his interest in music is a strong influence in his fiction writing.

Awards

Co-winner of 1997 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Crime Novel for Get Rich Quick[1]
Winner 1999 Ned Kelly Award Best Crime Novel for Amaze Your Friends[1]
Association of Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) 2006 award for Best Research in Record Labels and General History
2006 National Trust/Energy Australia Heritage Award in the Interpretation and Presentation, Corporate and Government division

Works

Novels

Year published	Title	Publisher
1996	Get Rich Quick	Minerva
1998	Amaze Your Friends	Random House
2001	The Devil's Jump	Arrow
2015	The Big Whatever	Dark Passage

Non-fiction

Year published	Title	Publisher
2004	The Currency Companion to Music and Dance in Australia	Currency (co-authored with John Whiteoak and A Scott Maxwell)
2005	City of Shadows: Sydney Police Photographs, 1912-1948	Historic Houses Trust of NSW
2005	Echo and Reverb	Wesleyan University Press: University Press of New England
2009	Crooks Like Us	Historic Houses Trust of NSW

References

"Ned Kelly Awards". Australian Crime Fiction Database. Retrieved 2007-09-15.
"Public eye, private eye: Sydney police mug shots, 1912-1930". SCAN. Retrieved 2016-08-07.
"Lost City Found: an interview with Luc Sante". SCAN. Retrieved 2016-08-07.

External links

"Macquarie University - Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies". Mmccs.mq.edu.au. 2016-01-19. Retrieved 2016-08-07.

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[Ned-1] "Ned Kelly Awards". Australian Crime Fiction Database. Retrieved 2007-09-15.

[2] "Public eye, private eye: Sydney police mug shots, 1912-1930". SCAN. Retrieved 2016-08-07.

[3] "Lost City Found: an interview with Luc Sante". SCAN. Retrieved 2016-08-07.