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The Murder Squad

The Murder Squad

How Australia's toughest cops hunted the monsters of the Great Depression

by Michael Adams
Paperback
Publication Date: 25/06/2024

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As Australia sank into the darkest days of the Great Depression, a succession of bloody mysteries grabbed headlines and gripped the country.

The Hammer Horror, The Bungendore Bones, The Park Demon, The Human Glove and The Pyjama Girl – these were just some of the grisly cases that had to be solved by the Sydney detectives of The Murder Squad.

With the people, press and politicians screaming for justice and vengeance, homicide chief Tom McRae and his colleagues used bold new investigative tools in the massive manhunts for these maniacal killers. Working under intense pressure, hard-nosed and hard-charging cops solved some cases brilliantly – yet others were 'closed' with dodgy convictions while several shadowy figures were to get away with murder.

Set against the backdrop of our greatest economic crisis, as the federal and state governments headed for a showdown and fascist and communist thugs threatened civil war, The Murder Squad reopens the files on Australia's most chilling forgotten crimes to ask who was guilty, who was innocent, and whether some cops were as dangerous as the monsters they were hunting.

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ISBN:
9781923046504
9781923046504
Category:
True crime
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
25-06-2024
Publisher:
Affirm Press
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
400
Dimensions (mm):
198x128mm
Weight:
0.4kg
Michael Adams

Michael Adams is an author, journalist, TV producer and screenwriter with a broad and deep knowledge of film. His memoir Showgirls, Teen Wolves and Astro Zombies is about a year-long search for the worst movie ever made. His book Shining Lights is a profile of Australian Oscar winners, based on interviews with Cate Blanchett, Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe and Geoffrey Rush.

Michael also contributed to The 100 Greatest Films of Australian Cinema, edited the AFI yearbook, and hosted Showtime's Movie Club and SBS's The Movie Show. For a decade Michael was reviews editor of the Australian edition of Empire and has written extensively on film and pop culture for Men's Style, Yen, Rolling Stone, Rottentomatoes.com and Movieline.com. He most recently worked as a writer and researcher for a TV show about Australian inventors for the History Channel.

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