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(Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2023) 9781776192779. 232 x 150 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. x + 326; contemporary photographs; maps. Light wear to cover; faint damp-stain to two leaves. Very good condition. "Mother. Nurse. Gold-digger. Cause célèbre. When Daisy de Melker stood trial in 1932, accused of poisoning her son and two husbands, the public couldn't get enough of her. Crowds gathered outside court baying for blood, and she waved to them like a celebrity. Against the backdrop of Johannesburg in its golden age, a booming metropolis of opulence and chaos nicknamed the 'City of Gold' and the 'University of Crime', she had quietly gone about her sinister business while around her sensational crimes grabbed the headlines. There was the marauding Foster Gang, which left at least ten people dead; a dashing German hustler; a local Bonnie and Clyde; an innocent student walking at Zoo Lake park at the wrong time and a man who escaped death row to become one…
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- Title DAISY DE MELKER - Hiding among killers in the City of Gold
- Author Ted Botha
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 338
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Jonathan Ball Publishers
- Date 2023-05-08
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Maps
- ISBN 9781776192779 / 177619277X
- Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.7 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.78 cm)
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- Cultural Region: African
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