The Red Hand: Stories, Reflections and the Last Appearance of Jack IrishThe unpublished, unfinished and unmissable writings of the unforgettable Peter Temple. Peter Temple started publishing novels late, when he was fifty, but then he got cracking. He wrote nine novels in thirteen years. Along the way he wrote screenplays, stories, dozens of reviews. When Temple died in March 2018 there was an unfinished Jack Irish novel in his drawer. It is included in The Red Hand, and it reveals the master at the peak of his powers.