Folder of information on Detective Eason, Greensborough, 1862detective eason

Hardcover book, 251 pages. Book has a plain blue cover, with gold-embossed spine. fictionDetective novel.francis d. grierson, detectives, fiction

251p. : blue cover with author and title embossed in gold on spinefictionIt was in a sordid Apache cafe that Geoffrey first saw her - the Lady of Despair - beautiful ward of the Paul Daburon, the famous advocate. Madelon Marly, the mysterious society beauty whose charm had attracted a number of suitors, each of whom had met a sudden death when their love was about to be returned. fiction, mystery, crime, francis d. grierson

Myrene Purcell is a retired Detective and Senior Sergeant with Victoria Police. In 1975 she applied for a transfer to the Criminal Investigation Branch and later trained at the Detective Training School.She was a member of the Sexual Offences Squad, which was the first squad of female officers and detectives, who were to investigate rapes and sexual offences in Victoria. In this interview, Purcell discusses her training, career and experiences of discrimination.Digital archive of oral history of former Senior Sergeant Myrene Purcell. Cut for exhibition purposes.police women, policewoman, detective, oral history

Articles cover the story of an attempted bank robbery of the Commercial Bank, (Main Road, Eltham) on Thursday 15th December 1949 when shots were exchanged in a bid to prevent the escape of a man who had attempted to rob the bank. A subsequent search took place. 19 year old youth Kay Arthur Morgan was later caught and committed to trial. He had used a stolen gun, 15 shots had been fired.. Two bullets were fired into the ceiling and back wall of the bank, after penetrating the wooden counter and passing in between the legs of the receiving officer Spear. Names mentioned: Senior Constable N. Forbes, Harry Wallace (Manager), Mr. L.A. Spears (Receiving Officer) , Senior Detective H. McMennamin, Mr H. D. Pettie (Mountain View Rd, Montmorency, Detective Sergeant K. Hubbard, Inspector F. Hobley, Senior Inspector R. Newton, Detective P. Pedersen, Detective L Dent, Detective J. Oakers, Includes photosFour pages of photocopies of newspaper clippings with typed source information. Pistol stolen, The Argus, 10th December, 1919 Search of Scrub proves fruitless, The Age 17th December 1949, page 3 Pistol Battle at Bank, The Age 16th December 1949 "Guilty" pleas to pistol theft Court told of lad's hold-up bid, The Argus 23rd February, 1950 page 7 commercial bank, eltham, robbery

Document. Harry Biggs Collection. A letter from H. W. Nunn, Senior Archivist of State Library of Vic. To Mrs M. Petterson dated 2/7/1968. 1854 - first Police Barracks built. Housed Inspectors Office, Mounted Police Barracks, Foot Police Barracks & Detective Quarters.organization, club/society, community, harry biggs collection, old police barracks

252p. ; red cover with original dust jacket cut and pasted onto the front cover with the text: Run: a most unusual blending of the detective story, psychological thriller, man-hunt thriller * It's very exciting. It's strangely fascinating. It's by Margaret Shedd well-known for her stories in "The New Yorker"fictionIn the first sentence of the first paragraph a boy is running. We don't at once know what he is running from, or where he is running to, and not until the end of the book can we fully understand why he is running. It is a story about murder; and we want to know who committed the murder; and, bit by bit, we piece together the truth - which, by a feat of ingenious construction, is revealed very, very gradually while the action keeps moving at express speed ...fiction, crime, mystery, margaret shedd