Water Covers All Sins

Water Covers All Sins
James Marsh
Banksiadale was an idyllic timber mill town, near Dwellingup
and Pinjarra, in the south-west of Western Australia. In its
heyday and climaxing in the early 1960s, it was the gem of
all mill towns with its own electricity supply, piped fresh water to all
houses and a peaceful, well-behaved community, not even needing
a resident policeman. Today, it does not exist.
Everything changed in 1963 when the mill mysteriously
burnt down, all workers had to leave, and the mill houses were
swallowed up and covered by the waters of a new dam, the South
Dandalup dam.
Other problems emerged when it was discovered some 40 years
later that two local residents had been murdered and disposed of in
a mill house which was submerged along with other buildings when
the dam was fl ooded. Three detectives have to work painstakingly
on various clues to try to track down the killers in this cold case.