CRIMES OF AUSTRALIAN CITIES

Softcover. From the Widow of Botany, 1888 to The Whiskey Club Fire, 1973, 28 cases of greed, passion, hate or the fight for survival. The motives are always the same, no matter where the location. In those days Australia was largely a pastoral society but as cities expanded and the rural population dwindled the balance between rural and urban crime changed. A book revealing the dark side of city life for wherever human weakness abounds, violence, deceit and depravity is sure to follow. 184pp. trade size softcover. From the library of true-crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Lightly browned pp., sl. creasing to lower cover o/w Vg+