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.

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