{{Short description|Australian author (born 1963)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see :Template:Infobox writer/doc --> | name = Gary Corby | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_date = {{birth-date|1963}} | birth_place = Sydney, Australia | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = novelist | nationality = Australian | period = 2008 - present | genre = historical mystery | movement = | notableworks = The Athenian Mysteries | influences = | influenced = | website = {{URL|http://GaryCorby.com/}} }} '''Gary Corby''' is an Australian author of historical mysteries set in the world of Classical Greece.
His novels feature historical figures from the time as recurring characters, notably Socrates, Pericles, and the priestess Diotima of Mantinea. The series hero is a fictional detective/agent named Nicolaos; the heroine is Diotima.
== Published works==
===The Athenian Mysteries=== #''The Pericles Commission'' (2010) {{ISBN|978-0-312-59902-7}}<ref name="booklist">{{cite web|url=https://www.books-by-isbn.com/authors/gary/corby/|title=Books by Gary Corby|website=Books by ISBN|access-date=16 December 2017}}</ref> #''The Ionia Sanction'' (2011) {{ISBN|978-0-312-59901-0}}<ref name="booklist" /> #''Sacred Games'' (2013) {{ISBN|978-1-61695-227-3}}<ref name="booklist" /> #''The Marathon Conspiracy'' (2014) {{ISBN|978-1-61695-387-4}}<ref name="booklist" /> #''Death ex Machina'' (2015) {{ISBN|978-1-61695-519-9}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.randomhouse.com/book/243560/death-ex-machina-by-gary-corby |title=Death Ex Machina by Gary Corby |publisher=Random House |accessdate=29 December 2014}}</ref> #''The Singer from Memphis'' (2016) {{ISBN| 978-1-61695-668-4}}<ref name="booklist" /> #''Death on Delos'' (2017) {{ISBN|978-1-61695-821-3}}<ref name="booklist" />
== Awards and nominations == * Nominated for the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Novel in 2010, for ''The Pericles Commission''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nedkellyawards.com/index.php/news-feeds |title=Nominations for the Ned Kelly Awards for crimewriting |accessdate=2011-05-24 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110502040249/http://nedkellyawards.com/index.php/news-feeds |archivedate=2011-05-02 }} Ned Kelly Awards 2011 nominations</ref> * Winner of the 2008 Arthur Conan Doyle Prize for new fiction in the historical mystery category for the short story ''The Pasion Contract''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.conandoylecollection.co.uk/conan-doyle-fiction-prize-08.html |title=The Arthur Conan Doyle Prize for New Fiction - the Arthur Conan Doyle Collection Lancelyn Green Bequest |accessdate=2011-05-24 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120324133841/http://www.conandoylecollection.co.uk/conan-doyle-fiction-prize-08.html |archivedate=2012-03-24 }} Arthur Conan Doyle Prize for new fiction 2008 winner list</ref>
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== External links == * [http://GaryCorby.com/ A Dead Man Fell from the Sky]. Official website and blog.
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