Detective Piggott's Casebook. True Tales Of Murder, Madness And The Rise Of Forensic Science

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Hardie Grant Books
Publisher Place: Richmond
Publisher Year: 2012
Edition: First Edition

Description: 304 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Welcome to hell, a world at war. The streets of Melbourne 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. Here, crime flourishes, the damaged fester and the wicked plot: a circle of the damned into which strides Frederick Piggott enforcer of the Kings law. Detective Piggotts Casebook presents for the first time the riveting inside facts on nine of the most important Victoria Police investigations of the early 20th century, drawing on the long-hidden personal papers of forensic pioneer, Frederick Piggott (18741962). Likened by his contemporaries to Sherlock Holmes, Piggotts investigations — conducted in the shadow and aftermath of World War I — covered the states most gruesome and mysterious crimes, including the notorious schoolgirl murders of Alma Tirtschke and Irene Tuckerman, and the horrific ‘headless boy and ‘Yarra baby killer cases. These uncensored accounts expose the graphic and often perplexing nature of the periods criminal investigation work and point to the dawn of a new era in Australian crime detection — the rise of forensic science.

ISBN: 9781742702650