Encyclopedia of Australian Murders 200 years of murder eBook Jim Main
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The elderly man’s body had been horribly mutilated, shocking even the most hardened police officers. It is just one case presented in this encyclopedia of Australian murder, along with the case of the woman’s limbs found in Melbourne’s Yarra River, the case of the body dumped in a wheelie bin and the extraordinary situation in which police sift through ash to find fragments of human bone.
There are murders from the colonial era, starting with the convict who turned cannibal, right up to the modern era, including the case of the Melbourne man who used a cross-bow to kill his wife and daughter. There are famous murders from every decade, including the Pyjama Girl case, the Graeme Thorne kidnapping and the infamous Anita Cobby rape and murder.
This is a chronology of Australian murder, gruesome yet fascinating, featuring more than 200 cases, from axe killings to poison and even death by fire. There are bodies buried in back yards and even a case of a body largely dissolved by acid. Do not read alone in the dark.
Encyclopedia of Australian Murders 200 years of murder eBook Jim Main
I bought this hoping for another book about how murderers were caught. This is not that kind of book; there is very little detail about the forensic science involved. This is my fault, because I didn't try a sample first. But I set that aside. That is not why I give it two stars.I think his being a reporter accounts for one thing that annoyed me throughout the book: the use of subtitles. I'm inventing this example, since I can't copy and paste from my Kindle: "BOMB AT THE OPERA HOUSE Three killed and many injured; police arrest suspected terrorist Dum Bommer." (No ethnicity intended. Say it aloud!) While they frequently appear under newspaper headlines, their use in a book like this makes the stories redundant. He has already told us what happened to who; why bother reading the article?
If the other books by this author are as badly written as this one, I hope he has a day job... Wait a minute, he does! He's a reporter! I hope he hired a bad, bad ghostwriter for this book, because if not, this is an indictment of the Australian school system. (Of course, he may be a product of the American school system, which wouldn't surprise me. I'm American - but from back before my generation, with all good intentions, helped set the public school system on its downward slide.)
The writing is dreadful. It is full of things like "Calway's mother was seriously ill in mid-2001, and moved in to help look after her..." (from "A Family Row") Huh? The seriously ill mother moved in to look after somebody? O_o I was continuously paging backwards and forwards to disentangle that kind of thing. There were examples of multiple "she" and/or "he" usage, like "She ran down the stairs where she had taken her jacket off and she stabbed her..." (Another made-up example.) And there are plenty of other things that would never have gotten past a good copy editor, or even a proofreader. (Oh, that's right, the papers and publishers are cutting costs by firing them. They should have laid off a bunch of middle managers instead!)
I had fun learning some Ozzie word differences, such as "Bikie" instead of "Biker," and "local identity" instead of "local personality" (I think. Perhaps it's a way of protecting the person's privacy.)
I did slug my way through the whole book. I would not buy it again. Unfortunately, this book has insured that, if I'm tempted at all to buy another of Mr. Main's books, I will not do so before reading a sample. If no sample is available, I won't buy it. Mr. Main, hire a good copy editor yourself, since your publisher won't!
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Encyclopedia of Australian Murders 200 years of murder eBook Jim Main Reviews
God book
Though not as much detail as I would have liked, this book does provide a lot of information in a not-so-large book.
Good for a read when you have nothing else to do, it will keep you entertained.
That's of course if you like this type of thing.
Hearing about the sometimes gory details of pointless murders is sometimes not for everybody.
I bought this hoping for another book about how murderers were caught. This is not that kind of book; there is very little detail about the forensic science involved. This is my fault, because I didn't try a sample first. But I set that aside. That is not why I give it two stars.
I think his being a reporter accounts for one thing that annoyed me throughout the book the use of subtitles. I'm inventing this example, since I can't copy and paste from my "BOMB AT THE OPERA HOUSE Three killed and many injured; police arrest suspected terrorist Dum Bommer." (No ethnicity intended. Say it aloud!) While they frequently appear under newspaper headlines, their use in a book like this makes the stories redundant. He has already told us what happened to who; why bother reading the article?
If the other books by this author are as badly written as this one, I hope he has a day job... Wait a minute, he does! He's a reporter! I hope he hired a bad, bad ghostwriter for this book, because if not, this is an indictment of the Australian school system. (Of course, he may be a product of the American school system, which wouldn't surprise me. I'm American - but from back before my generation, with all good intentions, helped set the public school system on its downward slide.)
The writing is dreadful. It is full of things like "Calway's mother was seriously ill in mid-2001, and moved in to help look after her..." (from "A Family Row") Huh? The seriously ill mother moved in to look after somebody? O_o I was continuously paging backwards and forwards to disentangle that kind of thing. There were examples of multiple "she" and/or "he" usage, like "She ran down the stairs where she had taken her jacket off and she stabbed her..." (Another made-up example.) And there are plenty of other things that would never have gotten past a good copy editor, or even a proofreader. (Oh, that's right, the papers and publishers are cutting costs by firing them. They should have laid off a bunch of middle managers instead!)
I had fun learning some Ozzie word differences, such as "Bikie" instead of "Biker," and "local identity" instead of "local personality" (I think. Perhaps it's a way of protecting the person's privacy.)
I did slug my way through the whole book. I would not buy it again. Unfortunately, this book has insured that, if I'm tempted at all to buy another of Mr. Main's books, I will not do so before reading a sample. If no sample is available, I won't buy it. Mr. Main, hire a good copy editor yourself, since your publisher won't!
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