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Summary: Crime and Coincidence
Review: I bought this book at the Police and Justice Museum in Sydney, Australia and it's a doozy! Let me just say that the writing's not great, as the author's a law professor, and he's a plodding sort. But the story is truly unblievable: an infamous murder is solved because a shark that's caught for an aquarium gets sick and barfs up the tatooed arm of a murder victim who was dismembered and dumped in the ocean. Even the ocean sometimes tells...A terrific read and travelogue of the Rocks area of Sydney. It was so engrossing that I actually stayed up all night in the hotel to read it. If you stay in the Rocks (Sydney's birthplace and the central location for visiting the Opera House, The Mutiny-on-the-Bounty Bounty ship replica, the Harbour Bridge, the Observatory, the Museum of Contemporary Art, etc.) then you'll want to add this prickly piece of the past to your travel book reading. After I read it, everywhere I went in the gentrified Rocks smacked of some unsavory act in the past; I even discovered my favorite spot for photographing Luna Park was the very spot were the master criminal in the book was killed! Chilling! This book reveals the criminal history of the Rocks that sprung up from its port o'convicts beginnings and has all but disappeared today, except in architectural touches (Like a glass court room door from the era in the book, is now in an antiques shop). Cool Stuff.
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