Queensland’s Great South West – Ipswich to Augathella

In the sixth book in the exciting Grave Tales series, journalists Helen Goltz and Chris Adams head south west to unearth some great tales. BUY YOUR COPY HERE.

Stories include:

• The Toowoomba Terror: the first Queensland-made car built by the Trevethan brothers;
• Gatton: Queensland’s oldest cold case, the murder of the Murphy siblings;
• Ipswich: The Babies of Walloon: young sisters, Bridget Kate and Mary Jane Broderick, immortalised by Henry Lawson in his 1891 poem;
• Nobby: the story of Victor Denton and the March of the Dungarees;
• Goondiwindi: The day that the town helped Albert Einstein;
• St George: Len Waters – Australia’s only WWII Aboriginal fighter pilot who nearly didn’t survive to tell the story;
• Roma: The Utopian Experiment and the families who took part;
• Charleville: The drowning of the Misses Switzer; and the best in          the West – Harry Corones;
• Augathella: The strange poisoning case of Mrs Margaret Roche;

… And 9 more in this volume.

Also in the Grave Tales series are books on Grave Tales: Brisbane; Grave Tales: Great Ocean Road Country – Geelong to Port Fairy; Grave Tales: Bruce Highway; Grave Tales: Sydney Vol.1; and Grave Tales: True Crime Vol.1