Mister Rainbow in the Case of the Cock Robin Killer

Over a long writing career, C S Boag s work has featured in numerous publications, including The Sydney Morning Herald, the former Sydney Sun newspaper and The Bulletin magazine His first story appeared in Sydney University s Honi Soit magazine and a number of his short stories have been published since A former columnist and feature writer, he is a winner of the Walter Stone Memorial Prize for Literature In the Mister Rainbow series the Hood with No Hands, Death of a Ladies Man, Horses for Corpses and Bullets at the Ballet have already been released by Xoum publishers, with The Cock Robin Killer to be released later this year.C S has travelled extensively and lived both here and overseas He feels he speaks enough French not to die there He says he has renovated too many houses, driven too many taxis and bulldozers He was a councillor on the Sydney City Council for what he calls a chilling couple of years and has also worked in a hamburger bar, taught English, laboured and performed other tasks too arduous to mention He has five children and now lives with his wife Judith on a small holding near Bathurst.The inspiration for Mister Rainbow stems from that time but also from when Charles was living illegally on a boat in the harbour The idea of a boat dwelling detective with attitude, issues and principles.But it wasn t until 3 years later and move to the central west of NSW on a small green holding that Mister Rainbow was published.Two historical novels one about a visionary woman in 19 th century Sydney and the other based on a real life English traveller in revolutionary France are in the works along with the series of Rainbow books.