Gary Corby Explained

Gary Corby
Birth Place:	Sydney, Australia
Occupation:	novelist
Nationality:	Australian
Period:	2008 - present
Genre:	historical mystery
Notableworks:	The Athenian Mysteries

Gary Corby is an Australian author of historical mysteries set in the world of Classical Greece.

His novels feature historical figures from the time as recurring characters, notably Socrates, Pericles, and the priestess Diotima of Mantinea. The series hero is a fictional detective/agent named Nicolaos; the heroine is Diotima.

Published works

The Athenian Mysteries

1. The Pericles Commission (2010) ^[1]
2. The Ionia Sanction (2011)
3. Sacred Games (2013)
4. The Marathon Conspiracy (2014)
5. Death ex Machina (2015) ^[2]
6. The Singer from Memphis (2016)
7. Death on Delos (2017)

Awards and nominations

• Nominated for the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Novel in 2010, for The Pericles Commission.^[3]
• Winner of the 2008 Arthur Conan Doyle Prize for new fiction in the historical mystery category for the short story The Pasion Contract.^[4]

External links

• A Dead Man Fell from the Sky. Official website and blog.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Books by Gary Corby. Books by ISBN. 16 December 2017.
2. Web site: Death Ex Machina by Gary Corby . . 29 December 2014.
3. Web site: Nominations for the Ned Kelly Awards for crimewriting . 2011-05-24 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110502040249/http://nedkellyawards.com/index.php/news-feeds . 2011-05-02 . Ned Kelly Awards 2011 nominations
4. Web site: The Arthur Conan Doyle Prize for New Fiction - the Arthur Conan Doyle Collection Lancelyn Green Bequest . 2011-05-24 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120324133841/http://www.conandoylecollection.co.uk/conan-doyle-fiction-prize-08.html . 2012-03-24 . Arthur Conan Doyle Prize for new fiction 2008 winner list