Cliff Hardy is a fictional Australian private eye created by Peter Corris.
I thought, Sydney, San Francisco, LA, I felt like there was a symbiosis there and figured, have a go at what you know you can write.
[3] Introduced in The Dying Trade, Hardy had served during the Malayan Emergency, studied and university and worked as an insurance investigator.
Hardy is a big, dark guy, bit of a hooked nose, hard look to him, but funny."
Corris says Paul Hogan was once suggested, "and I thought, well, if you were going to go funny and quirky, well, not my first choice but I wouldn’t have set my mind against it if the money was right."