City of Evil
The shocking real story of Adelaide's strange and violent underbelly - As seen on TV
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Publisher Description
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They call Adelaide the city of churches. What they forget is that every church has a graveyard - and every graveyard is full of skeletons.
Adelaide, an elegantly designed, civilised city, where the inhabitants are known for their love of the arts, good food and fine wine, is also the place where many of Australia's most bizarre and macabre crimes have taken place.
The cases in this book show that Adelaide truly does have another side: from the murder of a pro-wrestling truck driver by his two lesbian lodgers during an argument over a camera; to the case of a wronged wife who only wanted to burn the penis of her unfaithful husband, not burn him to death...
This book is more than a collection of some of the most attention-grabbing, shocking and puzzling cases from the past ten years: it also looks at why it might be that so many have happened in this sunny, conservative, unassuming state capital.
Praise for City of Evil:
'Sean Fewster discovers that a dark truth lurks behind Adelaide's murder capital myth' - Adelaide Advertiser
'a collection of macabre murders, rapes, torture and robbery, all occurring in Adelaide, the "City of Churches"...sensational and gruesome' - Courier Mail
'This book is not for the squeamish, but if you love true crime stories then this is right up there with the best of them' - Toowoomba Chronicle
Customer Reviews
City of evil
Moved across from Scotland in 2006 and didn't realize the amount of secrecy that goes on within the courts. Everywhere in the world there are perverts and criminals, however in Adelaide there are so many suppression orders made in is nearly impossible for the public to know all the facts on these cases.I have to take my hat of to the author for bringing us new and unbiased facts on the cases he covered.Well worth the read even if you aren't from Adelaide.
Great read
Intriguing look into the underbelly of Adelaide. Highly recommended!
Good read
After living in Adelaide for 30 years it's not surprising that this still happens it has to be the most dysfunctional states in Australia . Thank God I left in early 2000 I enjoyed the book it's a good in site to the way the south australian court system works or doesn't work for that matter