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1958 novel by Morris West as "Michael East"

McCreary Moves In
1974 edition
Author	Morris West as "Michael East"
Language	English
Genre	adventure
Publisher	Heinemann
Publication date	1958
Publication place	Australia
Media type	Print
Pages	194

McCreary Moves In is a 1958 novel by Morris West writing under the name "Michael East".

Premise

Mick McCreary is an unemployed oilman offered to run a drilling operation on a remote island. He gets involved in murder, intrigue and fraud.

Reception

The Pacific Islands Monthly called it "a piece of lurid adventure fiction." The Sydney Morning Herald called it "Bigges plus sex."

TV series

It was adapted into a 1957 TV series in England by ABC Weekend Television of 7 episodes of 30 minutes.

References

"[?] REVI[?]". The Beverley Times. Western Australia. 24 April 1958. p. 7 (Supplement). Retrieved 8 April 2020 – via Trove.
Missen, Mollie (February 20, 1993). "A master storyteller signs off". Sydney Morning Herald. p. 44.
"THE MONTH'S NEW READING WITH JUDY TUDOR". Pacific Islands Monthly. 1 May 1958. p. 95.
"Crimes in Brief". Sydney Morning Herald. June 28, 1958. p. 12.
McCreary Moves In at AustLit

External links

TV series at IMDb

v t e Works by Morris West
Novels	Gallows on the Sand (1956) Kundu (1956) The Big Story (1957) The Second Victory (1958) The Devil's Advocate (1959) Daughter of Silence (1961) The Shoes of the Fisherman (1963) The Ambassador (1965) The Tower of Babel (1968) Summer of the Red Wolf (1971) The Salamander (1973) Harlequin (1974) The Navigator (1976) Proteus (1979) The Clowns of God (1981) The World Is Made of Glass (1983) Cassidy (1986) Masterclass (1988) Lazarus (1990) The Ringmaster (1991) The Lovers (1993) Vanishing Point (1996) Eminence (1996) The Last Confession (2000)
Novels under pseudonyms	Moon in My Pocket (1945) McCreary Moves In (1958) The Naked Country (1960)
Non-fiction	Children of the Sun (1957)
Film/TV Adaptations	McCreary Moves In (1957) (TV) Children of the Sun (1961) (TV) The Crooked Road (1965) The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968) The Devil's Advocate (1977) The Salamander (1981) The Naked Country (1985) The Second Victory (1987)
Radio	The Curtain Rises (1946) The Mask of Marius Melville (1946) Burtons of Banner Street (1947) On the Danube (1948) Dick Barton - Secret Agent Experiment with Time Trumpets in the Dawn (1949) Paradise of Cheats (1949) The Prince of Peace (1950) The Apostle of Peace (1951) The Affairs of Harlequin (1951) White Marriage (1951) The Enchanted Island (1952) The Dreaming City (1952) Secret Mountain (1953) Mystery of Henriette (1953) Man of Two Tribes (1953) Special Assignment (1953) Fire of Etna (1953) The Golden Road (1954) The Dambusters (1954) The Great Escape (1954) There is a Santa Claus (1954) Reach for the Sky (1955) Genesis in Juddsville (1955) The Illusionists (1955) The White Tower (1955) The White Rabbit (1955) Gallows on the Sand (1956) The Big Story (1958)
Plays	The Illusionists (1955) The Devil's Advocate (1961) Daughter of Silence (1962) The Heretic (1970) The World Is Made of Glass (1984)

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