Detective Piggott's Casebook Famous True Crime Cases by Kevin Morgan

Kevin Morgan is a professional teller of tales who candidly includes failure. This book is published in collaboration with the State Library and showcases elements of the library's unique pictures, maps, manuscripts and rare books collections. Detective Piggotts Casebook: Famous True Crime Cases: 9781742702650: Books. Detective Piggott's Casebook presents for the first time the inside facts on ten of the most significant Victoria Police investigations of the early 20th century, drawing on the long-hidden personal papers of forensic pioneer and Melbourne's own Sherlock Holmes, Frederick Piggott (1874–1962), who joined the Melbourne CIB in 1912 and whose investigations covered many of the state's most gruesome and mysterious crimes, including the infamous murder of Alma Tirtschke and the subsequent wrongful hanging of Colin Ross. Edited extract of Detective Piggott's Casebook: True tales of murder, madness and the rise of forensic science by Kevin Morgan, published by Hardie Grant Books. Here, crime flourishes, the damaged fester and the wicked plot. Detective Piggotts Casebook: Famous True Crime Cases Kevin Morgan on. The streets of old Melbourne are no longer a tidy grid but fractured with laneways like cracks in old varnish, a hotchpotch of chaos, of shanties and factories, woodpiles and chimneys, the city smouldering under its bludgeoned sky. Detective Piggott’s Casebook presents for the first time the inside facts on ten of the most significant Victoria Police investigations of the early 20th century, drawing on the long-hidden personal papers of forensic pioneer and Melbourne’s own Sherlock Holmes, Frederick Piggott (18741962), who joined the Melbourne CIB in 1912 and whose invest.

Detective Piggott's Casebook Famous True Crime Cases by Kevin Morgan