SEX, DEATH AND BETRAYAL True Crime and Other Stories

Softcover. Featuring 18 cases. For almost 20yrs the sex killer dubbed 'Mr Stinky' was one of Australia's most wanted men but no-one knew his name - until the day his luck ran out. 'Cuckoo' is a chilling chronicle of murder and its detection. It was the 'suicide' that wasn't. When Jennifer Tanner was found shot dead in her remote farmhouse, police pushed the line that she had killed herself. They were wrong. This story unmasked the real killer. Arthur Brown was obsessively neat and had a dreadful secret; he had abducted and killed two young sisters in 1970 and got away with it. But how many others did he abduct over 50yrs? Was he Australia's worst serial killer? Twelve men raped two teenage girls on Melbourne Cup Day, 1976. Four of the men are now dead. One of the victims and a veteran cop are tracking down the others. It's payback time. The thylacine is officially extinct - but for decades reliable witnesses have reported seeing 'Tasmanian tigers' on the wrong side of Bass Strait, in south-eastern Victoria. Naturalists covertly released rare animals into a national park there early last century. Were thylacines among them? It's after midnight, 24,000 feet above Berlin and way below freezing. The tall Australian tail gunner is hunched in a turret as tight as a coffin, watching for approaching death. It's his 24th birthday and he is sure it's his last. The gunner survived but most of his mates didn't. This is his story. Illus., Epilogue and Appendix. 408pp. trade size softcover. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F. with no creasing to covers.