ON MURDER. True Crime Writing in Australia

Softcover. Australia is not short on stories of murder and mysterious deaths - all of them chilling, many of them unresolved. What impels a man to open fire on a cafe full of tourists? How could a young girl stab her school friend 47 times in the neck, spraying the ceiling and walls with blood? How can it be that Peter Aston's sadistic killer is a free woman? Who is respnsible for the Snowtown murders? The author presents an outstanding collection of Australia's finest crime writing. Contributors include : Judith Rodriguez's long ballad on the 1894 hanging of Frances Knorr. Andrew Rule on the murder of Jennifer Tanner. Michael Gawenda on Port Arthur. Helen Garner on Daniel Valerio. Bill Warnock on Japanese war crimes. Sandy McCutcheon on Snowtown. Shane Maloney on Melbourne's criminal underworld. Les Kennedy on Ivan Milat. Jane Cadzow on the murder of Peter Rowland. Mark Whittaker on the kidnap and murder of Peter Aston. John Bryson on the death of Azaria Chamberlain, plus others. With Notes on Contributors. 280pp. trade size softcover. From the library of true-crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Nr. F.