These are stories are related to the murder at Ulupna Island, 1898a. Photocopy from Famous Detective Stories "The Body in the Creek" (Stapled at the side, with red binding tape) b. Photocopy from Famous Detective Stories "Death Stalks the Redgums" (Stapled at the side, with red Binding Tape c. Famous Detective Stories magazine Volume 1 No. 6 May 1947as per photos aboveulupna island, murder, crime, detective stories, police, redgum forest

Pamphlet advertising a book written by Brigid George (J B Rowley) for a Dusty Kent detective mystery titled "Murder on a Melbourne Tram". The Museum via Mal Rowe provided the photo for the book cover. Book published early 2022. Yields information about a murder mystery based around a Melbourne tramPamphlet - Murder on a Melbourne Tram - DL size - colour.novels, melbourne, detective stories, books

Whitehorse Film Society has lost a nine-minute colour film entitled 'Did August Schwerkolt dig the Blackburn Lake one Sunday morning?' - a satirical detective story mentioned in Nunawading News 1970 (photo).Whitehorse Film Society has lost a nine-minute colour film entitled 'Did August Schwerkolt dig the Blackburn Lake one Sunday morning?' - a satirical detective story mentioned in Nunawading News 1970 (photo).whitehorse film society, blackburn and mitcham film society, davidson, ian, kowaleski, pat, cockrum, peter

Famous detective stories. Sold by Angus and Robertson, 89 Castlereagh St, SydneyFawn hardcover book containing short stories written by A. Conan Doyle Preface written 1928, 1336 pages \Sherlock Holmes - his adventures, memoirs. Return, His last bow and the case-book. The complete short stories

fictionA classic detective story. Harold Avery was born in 1869. His life reads like one of his own adventure stories. He was shipwrecked off the coast of Malaysia at the age of ten on his way to Australia with his parents who were drowned. Avery was brought up by the natives who, after three years put him on a Dutch boat bound back to England. He was brought up by an aunt who sent him to Eton and then settled with him in Edinburgh. Avery took a job in the city’s Water Department and in 1894 wrote his first book The Orderly Officer. In the next 45 years he wrote over fifty more books, mainly school stories and adventure stories. In 1941 he left Scotland to travel round the world and the last that was heard from him was a postcard sent to his aunt from Rio de Janeiro in 1943. It is chosen from his large output as being a typical school story but, it can be argued, it is the precursor of work by Enid Blyton and J K Rowling, dealing with school life, five children who go on an adventure and a mystical wizard who ends the story not with a wave of a wand but with kindness and consideration.#detectivestory, fiction, adventurebook, boysownadventure

Index, notes, map, p.267.non-fictionThe classic account of Hitler's fall from power, first pubilshed in 1947, reissued with a striking new cover. In September 1945 the fate of Adolf Hitler was a complete mystery. He had simply disappeared, and had been missing for four months. Hugh Trevor-Roper, an intelligence officer, was given the task of solving the mystery. His brilliant piece of detective work not only proved finally that Hitler had killed himself in Berlin, but also produced one of the most fascinating history books ever written. The Last Days of Hitler tells the extraordinary story of those last days of the Thousand Year Reich in the Berlin Bunker. Besieged in the shattered capital, but still dominating the remains of his court, Hitler reiterated the original alternative of Nazism: either total victory or annihilation. This book is the record of that carefully prepared, ceremonious finale to a terrible chapter of history. World War II. Military History. Nazi Germany. germany - politics and government - 1933-1945, adolf hitler - death and burial

In 1977, artist Annette Meikle undertook a commission to illustrate a book recording stories of places and people in the Bayside area. It was published in 1978 as Sandringham Sketchbook, with text by Elizabeth Waters. The sketches were intended to record remaining examples of Bayside’s early architecture and environment, as well as reflect newer architectural changes. Meikle went on to donate 22 of these sketches to Bayside City Council in 2003. This inter-war house located at 60 Bluff Road, Black Rock, was built in 1926 for former Scotland Yard and Criminal Investigation Branch detective Horatio Reginald Clarence McWilliams. When McWilliams died it was found that he had taken extreme measures to protect his security. All the windows were nailed shut, a network of burglar alarms ran through the house and a complicated underground air raid shelter had been built in the garden. The security measures were at odds with the name of the house – Karinga or Karinya – an Aboriginal word meaning peaceful, happy home. Later residents of ‘Karinga’ included Senator Don Chipp and his family. The property has since been demolished and apartments have been built on the land.Annette Meikle, Karinga 1977, ink and watercolour, 32 x 23.5 cm. Bayside City Council Art and Heritage Collection. Donated by the artist, 2003annette meikle, sandringham sketchbook, elizabeth waters, black rock, karinga, karinya, horatio reginald clarence mcwilliams, senator don chipp, historic house, bluff road

Ill, p.417fictionThe novel that T.S. Eliot called ;the first, the longest, and the best of the modern English detective novels ; Guarded by three Brahmin priests, the Moonstone is a religious relic, the centerpiece in a sacred statue of the Hindu god of the moon. It is also a giant yellow diamond of enormous value, and its temptation is irresistible to the corrupt John Herncastle, a colonel in the British Army in India. After murdering the three guardian priests and bringing the diamond back to England with him, Herncastle bequeaths it to his niece, Rachel, knowing full well that danger will follow. True to its enigmatic nature, the Moonstone disappears from Rachel & rsquo;s room on the night of her eighteenth birthday, igniting a mystery so intricate and thrilling it has set the standard for every crime novel of the past one hundred fifty years. Widely recognized, alongside the stories of Edgar Allan Poe, as establishing many of the most enduring conventions of detective fiction, The Moonstone is Wilkie Collins masterwork and one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century. england - fiction, romantic fiction

William John (Bill) Pill born 1894 Diamond Creek, son of Jessie Ann Whatmough and John Henry Pill. A modestly successful market gardener, growing tomatoes, at Cottles Bridge. He was murdered in his cottage on 21 December 1958. Contents Photograph: William John Pill. Photographs (4): Pill's Cottage, Cottles and farm Bridge 1936. Magazine article: "Tortured!", pages 23-27, "Killers at Large" Southdown Press 1970. Story of the murder of Bill Pill.Newspaper clippings, A4 photocopies, etcwilliam john pill, bill pill, cottles bridge, ada pill, detective sergeant frederick adam, tim powder, senior constable k lloyd, herbert funnell, first constable leonard dugdale, henry pascoe, detective inspector c petty, john henry pill, jessie ann pill nee whatmough, market garden, murder, steve whatmough collection