What would it be like to stand in the dock at your own murder trial and to realise that the jury cannot hear even a shred of the evidence?
What became of Marjorie Norval, the attractive social secretary to the wife of a Queensland Premier, who disappeared under mysterious circumstances?
What could drive a man to murder and crucify his own children while chanting religious texts from the Bible?
These and many more startling questions from Australia's hair-raising past are examined in this new book by leading Australian true crime writer, Dr Tony Matthews.
- Stolen schooners and mass murders
- Piracy and desperate cowardice
- Convict revolts and mass executions
- Mining disasters and true Aussie heroism
- Murder by sacrifice
- .... and much, much more
You'll be intrigued, appalled, astonished, amazed, astounded, electrified and flabbergasted - and that's before you finish the first chapter.
'Murder and Misadventure: Terrifying True Tales from Australia's Past' is the long awaited sequel to the author's bestseller 'Mayhem and Murder in Pioneering Queensland.
Contents:
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Before the Bench
1. Capture the Caledonia - December 1831
2. Justice, Swift and Bloody - January 1833
3. Death by Fire and Water - February 1833
4. The Strange Disappearance on Benjamin Boyd - October 1851
5. The Fever Ship Killer - January 1853
6. The Hulk Revolt - March 1857
7. The Hanging of Black Harry - 1861
8. The London Disaster - January 1866
9. Hang the Gold Commissioner - October 1867
10. Goldfields Murder - April 1869
11. The One-Eyed Executioner of Old Melbourne Gaol - September 1873
12. The Sandfly Massacre - October 1880
13. The Panmure Murderer - November 1883
14. The Killing of Bridget Rice - January 1884
15. The Mar Buried Beside Ned Kelly - March 1884
16. The Bullet Wound that Never Was - July 1884
17. Disaster at Bulli - March 1887
18. Murder of the Lady Douglas - 1887
19. Murder by Sacrifice - September 1887
20. Three Minutes to Death - November 1891
21. Frances Knorr: The Baby-Farmer Killer - January 1894
22. Assassination at Burwood - February 1894
23. Murder on the Selection - August 1907
24. Oblivion: The Disappearance of Marjorie Norval - November 1938
Sources and Notes
Bibliography
Index
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