| Helga's Web | |
| Author: | Jon Cleary |
| Country: | Australia |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Scobie Malone series |
| Genre: | Detective |
| Publisher: | Collins (UK) William Morrow (US) |
| Release Date: | 1970 |
| Preceded By: | The High Commissioner |
| Followed By: | Ransom |
Helga's Web was a 1970 novel by Australian author Jon Cleary, the second to feature his detective hero Scobie Malone.[1] [2]
Cleary did not originally intend to use the character again but wanted to write about the construction of the new Sydney Opera House and thought the detective could be a good way to access that.[3]
The London Daily Telegraph called it "absorbing to the end."[4]
The Sydney Morning Herald called it a "first class, exciting, immensely readable thriller."[5]
The novel was adapted into a film as Scobie Malone (1975).