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Australia's Greatest Escape Stories from Two World Wars (PB) by Colin Burgess
$35.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
A collection of stories about the most dangerous aspect of the Australian prisoner of war experience - escape. Here is all the adventure, suspense and courage of ordinary Australians who defied their captors; men who tunnelled to freedom, crawled by night through stinking drains, rappelled down stone wa ...Show more
Searching for Spiderman: The Disappearance of Three-Year-old William Tyrrell by Ally Chumley
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Three-year-old William Tyrrell made headlines across Australia in 2014 after he disappeared while playing outside his foster grandmother's house in Kendall on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales. Writer and researcher Ally Chumley, who has lived a stone's throw from Kendall for decades, watched as th ...Show more
Drugs, Guns and Lies: My Life As an Undercover Cop by Keith Banks
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
'Banks has told his story in a raw and honest autobiography. It is the best true crime book published in Australia in a decade.' -John Silvester, Crime Reporter for The Age Undercover was like guerrilla warfare; to understand your enemy, you had to walk amongst them, to become them. The trick was to kee ...Show more
All Fall Down by Matthew Condon
$32.95 AUD
Category: True Crime | Series: Three Kings part 3 | Reading Level: General Adult
The gripping finale to Three Crooked Kings and Jacks and Jokers brings to a close Matthew Condon's bestselling true crime trilogy. In 1983, the soon-to-be-knighted Police Commissioner Terry Lewis continues to turn a blind eye to the operation of The Joke, a highly organised system of graft payments fro ...Show more
Little Fish are Sweet by Matthew Condon
$32.95 AUD
Category: True Crime
"I recall meeting Lewis on a number of occasions in company with Tony Murphy. I recall conversation getting around to payments of money with Murphy and Lewis. Lewis thanked me on several occasions and said 'Little fish are sweet." --Jack 'The Bagman' Herbert in evidence to the Fitzgerald Inquiry 1988. L ...Show more
Missing William Tyrrell by Caroline Overington
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
One minute a little boy is playing outside his foster nana's house, the next minute, he's gone. How can a three year old child simply disappear? On Friday 12 September 2014, William Tyrrell - a playful three-year-old boy dressed in a fire-engine red Spider-Man suit - disappears from a quiet street in ...Show more
Talking with Serial Killers: Dead Men Talking - Death Row's Worst Killers - in Their Own Words by Christopher Berry-Dee
$19.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
'I have interviewed, face to face, some of the world's most heinous serial killers, spree killers and mass murderers. I have sat with them on death rows throughout the United States, where the stench of cheap disinfectant, human sweat and evil permeates every brick of the human warehouses that imprison ...Show more
In Cold Blood (Popular Penguin) by Truman Capote
$12.99 AUD
Category: True Crime | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time From the Modern Library's new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Truman Capote--also available are Breakfast at Tiffany's and Other Voices, Other Rooms (in one volume), Portraits and Observations, an ...Show more
The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire (PB) by Chloe Hooper
$22.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
On the scorching February day in 2009 that became known as Black Saturday, a man lit two fires in Victoria's Latrobe Valley, then sat on the roof of his house to watch the inferno. In the Valley, where the rates of crime were the highest in the state, more than thirty people were known to police as fire ...Show more
Shadow State: Murder, Mayhem and How Russia Is Reshaping Our Politics by Luke Harding
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist comes Shadow State, a timely and shocking analysis which connects Putin, Trump, and Brexit with the dark web. Based on years of investigations, Luke Harding reveals how Russian spies helped to sway the 2016 US presidential electi ...Show more
Shark Arm by Phillip Roope; Kevin Meagher
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Truth can be stranger than fiction. In a Coogee aquarium in 1935 a shark coughed up a man's tattooed arm. The authors of Shark Arm have unravelled an extraordinary tale of high-class smuggling around Sydney Harbour and police collusion that has eluded many investigations into this famous cold case. ...Show more
Whiteley on Trial by Gabriella Coslovich
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
It was a cause cel bre- the biggest case of alleged art fraud to come before the Australian criminal justice system, a $4.5 million sting drawing in one of the country's most gifted and ultimately tragic artists, Brett Whiteley, a heroin addict who died alone in 1992.It started with suspicions raised ab ...Show more
