David Coombe: 2 books
by David Coombe
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
This is the story of Josephine. From 1863 to 1874 she was the publican at the Gasworks Hotel in Brompton, an inner suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. Four men died there in that time – two of them were husbands.
This is an untold story that plugs gaps in several family histories – a gap...
by David Coombe
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
A True Story of Murder, Madness & the News in Colonial Melbourne.It's 1850s Australia. A double murder. A locked room. The murderer is dying from a gunshot. But the reporter says the scene is near impossible. Melbourne Herald reporter Edmund Finn (known to many as Garryowen) described it as "one...