MAYHEM AND MURDER IN PIONEERING QUEENSLAND True Stories of Real Mysteries

Softcover. Sensational tales from Queensland's rough-and-ready pioneering days. Truth is indeed stranger than fiction. Here are dozens of true stories about cruel crimes of passion and greed, and about the relentless and sometimes merciless processes of the law. Includes : murder by strychnine, escaped convicts, buried alive, lost treasures, highway robberies, lynch law, brutal executions, gold fever and true whodunits. Based on the author's popular historical broadcasts on ABC Radio. Illus., Sources and Notes, Bibliog. and Index. 248pp. 8vo. softcover. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. V. sl. crumpled corner on fr. cover which has also affected the first few pp. o/w Vg+