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Book Synopsis The Bassett Road Machine-Gun Murders by : Scott Bainbridge
Download or read book The Bassett Road Machine-Gun Murders written by Scott Bainbridge and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2013-11-28 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Saturday morning, 7 December 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 door: his two tenants, George Walker and Kevin Speight, had been violently murdered days before. The machine-gun execution of Walker and Speight marked the beginning of a new, more sinister era of crime in New Zealand. The two men convicted of the killings - Ron Jorgensen and John Gillies - became household names. Both the victims and their killers were deeply involved in Auckland's burgeoning criminal scene. But the real story behind the killings has never been told. Sly-grogging, horse-doping, prostitution, drugs, rival gangs and tough cops - the story has all the hallmarks of a classic crime novel. Only it's all true, and it happened in 1960s Auckland.
Download or read book His Way written by Barry Gustafson and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This the only authorized biography of New Zealand's prime minister, Robert Muldoon—one of the dominant political figures of the last half-century in that country. Based on many hours of conversation with Muldoon himself as well as colleagues, friends, and family, and wide access to the prime minister's official and private papers and diaries, this book has been awarded the Ian Wards Prize for published historical writing. Muldoon is shown as a champion of the ordinary people whose vision over time became anachronistic and inflexible. The book is also a fascinating picture of New Zealand's changing political landscape from the 1940s to the 1980s.
Download or read book Kings of Stings written by James Morton and published by Victory Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you want to...Help distribute money to the poor and be given a fee to do so? Share in Al Qaeda's hidden gold? Help a young girl orphaned in the tsunami? In their highly entertaining and often shocking new book James Morton and Susanna Lobez follow up their bestselling Gangland Australia by delving into the world of Australian con artists such as Mario Condello, Helen Demidenko, Christopher Skase, Brenton Jarrett, Peter Foster, Lola Montez and Fairlie Arrow. Here are highly talented men and women and their tricks: changing paper into banknotes, selling other people's property, faking deaths, and forging paintings; promising miracle cures and impersonating aristocracy, preachers, military gents, lawyers and doctors. In fact, whatever it takes to separate the unwary from their money. Read about the scams and think twice about that offer that seems almost too good to be true.
Download or read book Jumping Sundays written by Nick Bollinger and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-11 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a Sunday afternoon in the spring of 1969, thousands of people defied Auckland city bylaws and came to party in Albert Park. A rock band played on the rotunda. Some people held hands, some danced alone, some sat under trees with guitars, flutes and bongos and made music of their own. They wore kaftans, ponchos and leather-fringed jerkins, floppy hats, headbands, beads and flowers. Poetry and political diatribes were delivered from a podium, improvised from an upturned tea chest. There were bikies, balloons, bubbles, sack races and a lolly scramble, lots of dogs and a pet possum. Someone brought a canoe and paddled it around the fountain, until it capsized. As the afternoon wore on there were joss sticks, skyrockets and what some will have recognised as the musky smell of marijuana. . . —From the PrologueIn Jumping Sundays, award-winning writer and broadcaster Nick Bollinger tells the story of beards and bombs, freaks and firebrands, self-destruction and self-realisation, during a turbulent period in New Zealand's history and culture.
Download or read book Book Self written by C. K. Stead and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sequel to the successful books Kin of Place and The Writer at Work, this collection of critical writing takes the reader on a personal journey from the author's earliest discovery of poetry as a young man to his latest experiences on the literary trail. This trip through literary history involves many writers, including Katherine Mansfield, T. S. Eliot, Michael King, and Elizabeth Knox. The book also includes a series of journal extracts that allow readers to get closer to the mind of the writer, his strong personal views about other writers, and his deep commitment to the role of criticism in literary life.
Download or read book Shadow Worlds written by Andrew Wood and published by Massey University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-13 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vigorous strand of interest in the occult, the spooky and the mysterious has been part of New Zealand's history since 1840.Shadow Worlds takes a lively look at communicating with spirits, secret ritualistic societies, the supernatural, the New Age — everything from The Golden Dawn and Rosicrucianism to Spiritualism, witchcraft and Radiant Living — and introduces the reader to a cast of fascinating characters who were generally true believers and sometimes con artists.It' s a fresh and novel take on the history of a small colonial society that was not quite as ploddingly conformist as we may have imagined.
Book Synopsis The Village Transformed by : Montague Harry Holcroft
Download or read book The Village Transformed written by Montague Harry Holcroft and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""The purpose of this book" writes M.H. Holcroft, "is to examine changes in New Zealand life during the twentieth century" Drawing on nearly ninety years living in, and closely observing New Zealand, Holcroft examines in ten chapters a number of the areas in which change has been particularly felt -- amongst them: sexual mores; crime, violence and punishment; dress codes; race relations; restructuring in the Public Service; the "adversarial" tendency in New Zealand society ..."--Back cover.
Book Synopsis The Great New Zealand Robbery by : Scott Bainbridge
Download or read book The Great New Zealand Robbery written by Scott Bainbridge and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2017-07-26 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It should be remembered as New Zealand's answer to Britain's Great Train Robbery: in the dead of the night, robbers broke into the Waterfront Industry Commission's offices and made off with an audacious loot equivalent to almost $1 million today. This 1956 heist, which eventually came to be known as the Waterfront Payroll Robbery, was executed with military precision and the robbers left nothing but a smoking office and an empty safe behind them. The crime was eventually pinned on small-time crook Trevor Nash. When four years later, Nash made a brazen prison-escape attempt, he rose to notoriety as a kind of anti-establishment hero. But to this day uncertainty remains about whether Nash alone was responsible for the waterfront heist. Could he really-cunning as he was-have pulled it off all by himself? And what happened to the money?
Book Synopsis People, Power, and Law by : Alexander Gillespie
Download or read book People, Power, and Law written by Alexander Gillespie and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-05 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a unique insight into the key legal and social issues at play in New Zealand today. Tackling the most pressing issues, it tracks the evolution of these societal problems from 1840 to the present day. Issues explored include: racism; the position of women; the position of Maori and free speech and censorship. Through these issues, the authors track New Zealand's evolution to one of the most famously liberal and tolerant societies in the world.
Book Synopsis Under Penalty of Death by : Kevin E. Meredith
Download or read book Under Penalty of Death written by Kevin E. Meredith and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An FBI cover-up spanning nearly a century. A victim and his family sworn to secrecy. Machine Gun Kelly's first kidnapping, a crime that changed America before it was swept under the rug of history. Under Penalty of Death: The Untold Story of Machine Gun Kelly's First Kidnapping brings to light for the first time the long-forgotten (and twice covered up) tale of the 1930s kidnapping that saved America from itself. In January 1932, Howard Arthur Woolverton, a wealthy industrialist in South Bend, Indiana, was kidnapped by Kelly and his gang. While no one was killed, the crime-occurring just six weeks before the Lindbergh kidnapping-nevertheless proved a watershed event, gripping the imagination of terrified Americans everywhere. The combined fallout of the two kidnappings helped usher in the federal law that shut down America's professional kidnapping industry for good. However, today Woolverton's name is forgotten, his story erased from public memory as if it had never happened. But why the cover-up? How did Woolverton quash the first investigation? Why did J. Edgar Hoover and his "G-Men" impose their own wall of silence? And how does it all connect with a bloody 1933 FBI screwup at a train station in Kansas City? Drawing on a buried federal statement, family archives, extensive research through period newspaper accounts, and interviews with those few who still remember, Under Penalty of Death: The Untold Story of Machine Gun Kelly's First Kidnapping exposes intrigue and collusion in the era of gangsters, rampant crime, and the Great Depression"--
Download or read book Look this Way written by Sally Blundell and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What is it about a particular work of art that seizes your attention? Seventeen writers--novelists, poets, essayists, a lyricist, a dramatist, a comic book writer and artist--answer these seemingly straightforward questions, each writing on a New Zealand artist of their choice"--Front inside cover.
Book Synopsis More Than Law and Order by : Susan Butterworth
Download or read book More Than Law and Order written by Susan Butterworth and published by Otago University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Zealand police had a challenging task in the second half of the twentieth century. Society was changing rapidly, with growing urbanization, increasing multi-culturalism, and changes in gender roles, as well as a growth in crime and rising public dissent. Keeping the peace required flexibility and good organization. Immediately after the World War II, the police were in a sorry state. They were short on resources and antiquated in their systems. As a result, the period covered by this book saw major change and modernization. The author explores the ways in which the police have overhauled their management structure repeatedly since the 1940s and shows how they have often struggled to position themselves within the modern public sector.
Book Synopsis Machine Guns & Typewriters by : Robert Wallace
Download or read book Machine Guns & Typewriters written by Robert Wallace and published by . This book was released on 2023-10-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1934, a backyard auto mechanic, his dullard brother, and an M.I.T. graduate fleece the Massachusetts State Police at a Boston auto show when the trio steals a Thompson submachine gun from an exhibit. Days later, the bandits turn the weapon on hostages used as human shields, while killing two police officers during a bank heist in the sleepy suburb town of Needham. For the first time in Massachusetts history a machine gun has been used in a crime. It is yet another job during a ruthless deluge of bloodshed which leaves two more citizens dead and a pair of taxi cab drivers caged in a courtroom surrounded by a legion of vengeful witnesses on the verge of convincing a jury to sentence the friends to death by electrocution. Mired by political motivation and turmoil within an unorganized police force, tenacious detectives, known as "The Four Aces", find themselves clashing with more than just gangsters. Now, two rival crime reporters must combine wits to piece together the truth under the weight of competition between the city's mightiest newspapers. Against them are the tick of time, deficient evidence, and the indifference of cold blooded killers.
Book Synopsis Gun Violence in America by : Alexander DeConde
Download or read book Gun Violence in America written by Alexander DeConde and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2003 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth analysis of the folklore surrounding gun use and the state of the debate in today's political climate.
Download or read book Without Trace written by Scott Bainbridge and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these fascinating case studies Bainbridge takes his readers on the trail of missing persons. Was Heidi Charles the second victim of a serial killer in Rotorua, New Years Eve 1976? Did notorious criminal Ronald Jorgensen die in a car crash on the Kaikoura coast in 1983 or did he fake his own death? What happened to Judith Yorke who disappeared from a party in 1992? Where is Sara Niethe, Kaikere mother of three, who left the home of friends early one morning in 2003 and has not been seen since? Sixteen of New Zealand's most baffling unsolved missing person cases spanning five decades are profiled in Without A Trace, which explores the theories, official investigations, sightings and unanswered questions that continue to frustrate police and family.
Book Synopsis From Enforcers to Guardians by : Hannah L. F. Cooper
Download or read book From Enforcers to Guardians written by Hannah L. F. Cooper and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aimed at anyone seeking to understand the causes and distributions of excessive police violence—and to develop interventions to end it—From Enforcers to Guardians frames excessive police violence so that it can be understood, researched, and taught about through a public health lens.
Author :Lesley Elliott Publisher :Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited ISBN 13 :1869795970 Total Pages :267 pages Book Rating :4.8/5 (697 download)
Download or read book Sophie's Legacy written by Lesley Elliott and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2011-06-10 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sophie Elliott had everything to live for, until her ex boyfriend decided otherwise. The gripping mother's tale of a murder that shocked New Zealand. Sophie Elliott had good looks, intelligence, friends, a loving family, a degree under her belt and a new job at the Treasury in Wellington. And then, the day before she left Dunedin to take up that job, she was brutally stabbed to death in her own home by her former boyfriend, Clayton Weatherston. He was much older and one of her lecturers at the university. When the public came to take his measure at his high-profile trial in 2010, his narcissistic, manipulative personality stunned the nation. Sophie's mother Lesley has weathered the horror of her daughter's death, and the gruelling process of the trial, to set up a foundation to help young women identify when they might be in a relationship that puts them in harm's way — as Sophie was, unbeknownst to her and her family — and how to seek help. This book is Lesley's tribute to a daughter she adored, her harrowing account of a tragedy no family should ever have to endure, and her inspiring decision to make sure that Sophie's legacy endures. It's also her challenge to the justice system on behalf of victims.
