"Cleary, Jon Stephen"@en . . . "Cleary, Jon"@en . "1917Z"^^ . "1917-11-22Z"^^ . "Australian writer, novelist" . "2010Z"^^ . "Jon Stephen Cleary"@en . . "Jon Cleary"@en . "2010-07-19Z"^^ . "Jon Stephen Cleary (22 November 1917 \u2013 19 July 2010) was an Australian writer and novelist. He wrote numerous books, including The Sundowners (1951), a portrait of a rural family in the 1920s as they move from one job to the next, and The High Commissioner (1966), the first of a long series of popular detective fiction works featuring Sydney Police Inspector Scobie Malone. A number of Cleary's works have been the subject of film and television adaptations."@en .