Mavis Levack
Created by Marele Day

MAVIS LEVACK was a fledgling Australian private eye who appeared in a series of short stories by Marele Day, who also wrote about Sydney eye Claudia Valentine.

In fact, Mavis made her debut as a comical "nosy neighbour" in The Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender, the first Claudia Valentine novel.

NOVELS

• The Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender (1988; Claudia Valentine) ...Buy this book
  Not a Mavis novel, although she does make her debut here, as a nosy neighbour who ends up helping claudia crack the case.

SHORT STORIES

• "Unpleasantness at the Big Boys Club" (1992, A Corpse at the Opera House)
• "Mavis Levack’s One Night Stand" (1993, Murder at Home)
• "Marple Syrup(1994, Love Lies Bleeding)
• "The Case of the Disappearing Detective" (2000, Mavis Levack, P.I.)
• "Emoh Ruo" (2000, Mavis Levack, P.I.)
• "A Helping Hand" (2000, Mavis Levack, P.I.)
• "I Can’t Take Any More" (2000, Mavis Levack, P.I.)
• "Mrs. Levack and the Egyptian Goddess" (2000, Mavis Levack, P.I.)
• "The One That Didn’t Get Away" (2000, Mavis Levack, P.I.)
• "Unpleasantness at the Big Boys Club" (2000, Mavis Levack, P.I.)

COLLECTION

• Mavis Levack, P.I. (2000)...Buy this book

Report respectfully submitted by Damien Gay of Crime Down Under and Kevin Burton Smith.