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The Diggers Rest Hotel
Author Geoffrey McGeachin
Language English
SeriesCharlie Berlin
Genre Crime novel
Publisher Penguin, Australia
Publication date
2010
Publication place Australia
Media typePrint ( Paperback)
Pages316
ISBN 9780670072736
Preceded byDead and Kicking 
Followed by Blackwattle Creek 

The Diggers Rest Hotel (2010) is a crime novel by Australian author Geoffrey McGeachin. It is the first in the author's Charlie Berlin mystery series and won the 2011 Ned Kelly Award.

Plot summary

Charlie Berlin, a bomber pilot during World War II, rejoins the Melbourne police force after the war and in 1947 he is sent to Albury-Wodonga to investigate a series of violent robberies.

Reviews

Fair Dinkum Crime found the novel to build to be a winner and that the author "has taken care with the historical detail and it gives the novel a great feeling of authenticity". [1]

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