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New Zealand Mysteries by Scott Bainbridge
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
New Zealand’s history is peppered with mysterious tales of otherworldly beings, strange sightings, inexplicable disappearances and unusual crimes. While some of these stories have been handed down through generations, many of them hail from more recent times. The one thing they all have in common is tha ...Show more
Shot in the Dark: Unsolved New Zealand Murders from the 1920's and 30's by Scott Bainbridge
37.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
Secondhand. 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 mass murderer - these are just some of the fascinating unsolved murders profiled in Shot in the Dark. While the ten cases pr ...Show more
Still Missing : More unsolved, missing person cases in New Zealand by Scott Bainbridge
37.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
DoP - August 2008, Auckland 130 x 198mm Each year hundreds of New Zealanders mysteriously go missing, vanishing from their homes and families, their cars and workplaces seemingly without a trace. Many will remember the publicity surrounding particular cases, but this book gives insider information int ...Show more
The Bassett Road Machine-Gun Murders by Scott Bainbridge
36.99 NZD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: good
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. T ...Show more
The Fix - The story of one of New Zealand's biggest swindles by Scott Bainbridge
39.99 NZD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: very good
In 1966, international con-man Robert Gardner brought a highly skilled crew of grifters to New Zealand to pull off one of the biggest swindles in the country’s history. This was executed with professional precision, until two young office girls played detective and stumbled upon a crucial mistake – but ...Show more
The Great New Zealand Robbery by Scott Bainbridge
32.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
It should be remembered as New Zealand's answer to Britain's Great Train Robbery, but instead it's been almost completely forgotten. In the dead of the night, robbers broke into the commission building and made off with an audacious loot equivalent to almost $1 million today. This 1956 heist, which even ...Show more
Without a Trace by Scott Bainbridge
30.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
DoP - August 2008, Auckland 130 x 198mm 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 coas ...Show more
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