The Suicide Bride: A mystery of tragedy and family secrets in Edwardian Sydney

Author: Tanya Bretherton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Whenever society produces a depraved criminal, we wonder: is it nature or is it nurture? When the charlatan Alicks Sly murdered his wife, Ellie, and killed himself with a cut-throat razor in a house in Sydney's Newtown in early 1904, he set off a chain of events that could answer that question. He also left behind mysteries that might never be solved. Sociologist Dr Tanya Bretherton traces the brutal story of...Read more