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Daisy de Melker. Hiding among killers in the City of Gold
by Botha, Ted
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 177619277X
- ISBN 13
- 9781776192779
- Seller
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Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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About This Item
(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 of South Africa's most revered authors. These interlinking stories are told in the style of a thriller and with riveting, kaleidoscopic detail." .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13491
- Title
- Daisy de Melker. Hiding among killers in the City of Gold
- Author
- Botha, Ted
- Book Condition
- Used
- ISBN 10
- 177619277X
- ISBN 13
- 9781776192779
- Publisher
- (Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2023) 9781776192779
- Keywords
- True Crime. Johannesburg. Witwatersrand Crime
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Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
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About the Seller
Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
Biblio member since 2018
Port Elizabeth
About Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
Christison Rare Books operates as a mail order business, based in Port Elizabeth. We are members of IOBA and SABDA. Whereas we stock thousands of books on a wide variety of subjects, our focus has always been on SE Africa - its peoples, wildlife and history. The store is managed by Lindsay Christison. Although we do not run an open book shop, prospective customers who would like to examine items described in our on-line list of stock are welcome to make an appointment.
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- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...