On Saturday morning, December 7, 1963, Eric Lewis called around to his property in Bassett Road, Remuera, Auckland, to collect the rent. He was not prepared for the scene that greeted him when he opened the […]
A Christchurch publican shot in a crowded pub, an Indian fruiterer beaten to death in Hawera and a trail of destruction left across Waikato and the Bay of Plenty by a multiple murderer – these […]
Full marks to Scott Bainbridge. What a determined fossicker of facts he has proved to be in writing Shot in the Dark. As the sub-title proclaims, this book is about unsolved New Zealand murder cases […]
This is an engaging volume, despite having remarkably few virtues. Bainbridge has trawled through old files (notably those of the police, but with the Truth newspaper not far behind) and exhumed, as the title promises, […]
Accounts of unsolved murder cases are wildly popular, not least because they give readers the chance to play at being detectives. As the flurry of commentary on the 40th anniversary of the Crewe murders has […]
(out of print) Was Heidi Charles the second victim of a homegrown serial killer in Rotorua on New Years Eve 1976? Did notorious career criminal Ronald Jorgensen die in a car crash in 1983 or […]
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(out of print) In 2005 Scott Bainbridge’s Without Trace was released. All of the cases covered in this book were reasonably well known to most New Zealanders. Bainbridge was told the book made ‘certain people […]
Beatties Blog I found myself feeling a little guilty at the way in which I became totally engrossed in this chunky and compelling title. I thought to myself I’ll just read the author’s introduction and […]
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