Barry Maitland digs into art fraud in crime novel The Russian Wife

By Michael Byrne
Updated December 20 2021 - 6:54am, first published 6:53am
Transformed: Barry Maitland, who lives in Maitland, forged a second career as a fiction writer. Picture: Edward Cross
Transformed: Barry Maitland, who lives in Maitland, forged a second career as a fiction writer. Picture: Edward Cross

It's perfectly fitting that the literary career of Barry Maitland, one of Australia's most respected crime writers, originated from a plot twist that nobody saw coming. The motivation to depart from his career as an architect and an academic and turn to the uncertain world of authorship emerged from an infamous day in the history of Newcastle.

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