Crime

A study of the administration of the criminal law in the Port Phillip District from the arrival of the white settlers until the onset of the Gold Rush and Separation. This study will help the present community understand many aspects of our present culture and give many citizens an insight into the community in which their ancestors lived.

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"John Tully’s Dark Clouds on the Mountain is a finely written detective story that carries its reader along with an intriguing plot, a gallery of memorable characters, and strange presentiments of evil. Through this last quality, Tully reveals the old Hobart Town that still lies behind the modern Hobart. This gives the novel a dimension in time that does not detract from the immediacy of its portrayal of social, family and political disturbance in the contemporary world. Its fast-moving narrative takes us into the heart of a Tasmania as much embroiled in the contemporary globe as in its particular past." John McLaren

Crime fiction: Set in wintry Tasmania in the early 1990s, with flashbacks to post-war Hobart and Europe during World War II, this story deals with dark secrets, crime and Nazi plots, interwoven with familiar domestic tensions of family life and marriage. Tully creates a fictional world strongly embedded in authentic details of real locations and well-conceived characters.

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In this book you will read how a combination of avoidable factors led to possibly the worst case of breakdown of law and order in Melbourne’s history – a unique occasion when the very guardians of order were so provoked by an inept and blundering administration that they went on strike.

Imagine being pulled over for speeding and then having to lend the policeman a pen so he could write out your ticket. This happened when a motorcycle policeman left his pens at the office. And there was the time a policeman pulled over a young buck and while inspecting his car manages to run him over – with his own car! And there was the off-duty policeman who goes to the aid of a woman in distress – only to discover she was in the throws of passion not terror! And there was the policeman who locked himself out of his own police station.

Vikki Petraitis and Detective Senior Sergeant Chris O’Connor use the stories in Rockspider to show parents how paedophiles operate so that parents – and their children – can identify the signs before it is too late.

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Sin City, 1970s. Crooked cops take the cream off the top of crime profits. Judges frequent illegal gambling dens. The winners of races are known before the horses have run. Heroin floods the streets, And the fight for the control of the trade sees men being gunned down left and right. This is the world of George Freeman. Often portrayed as a charming celebrity gangster, he was in fact a calculated criminal motivated by greed and a lust for power and influence. 

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Southern England, August 1936. An artefact from the dark ages – a wolf carved in jet – is stolen from the archaeology department of St Matthew’s College. A man is murdered in an antique store. Historian George Haye translates two eighth-century documents for the investigating police, and is soon nearly murdered himself. What is it about the documents? And why does the wolf seem to be at the black heart of all the evil that unfolds around him?

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