| Description |
v, 657 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Chapter 01. Uneasy about Easey street -- The third man -- Chapter 02. Murdertown -- Guess who's coming to dinner -- Chapter 03. The life of Brian -- Chapter 04. Strange happenings at The Basin - Boiling up a kid -- Oil! what a gusher -- There's a tadpole in my stomach -- Pee shooters -- The point of it all - TB or not to be -- Getting ahead of myself -- The double cross -- Returning from the dead -- Chapter 05. Holy hell! Men in black -- Burned offerings -- The huns strike back -- Who's been peeing in my bed? -- Who's been messing with my food? -- Thereby hangs a lesson -- A seat of learning -- Losing your head at grammar -- Chapter 06. Dame Edna was my classmate -- Malcolm: 'Drop your trousers...' -- POW - Dad's back -- Home at last -- The birth of a punter -- Chapter 07. No correspondent entered into -- The baptism -- Sir Edward's flashback -- Expect the unexpected -- The dead of night -- Midnight at the morgue -- Beat this! -- Frankly the best -- 'Great news seven dead...' -- Salting a gold mine... or was it pepper? -- What Churchill's butler saw... -- Buried alive -- Amazing Grace! -- A young man courting -- Power without glory...the court drama -- John Wren challenges lawyer to duel -- The killing of Jean Lee -- Driven by a Holden -- No garlands for Judy -- Dodging fisticuffs with Sinatra -- They died with their boots on -- Body language - you don't have to be dead to be stiff -- The night I flooded Seymour -- A session with Sir Robert -- Oral medicine -- Skeggs & the mature pie -- His royal anus -- Chapter 08. Argus Daze -- The three racketeers - flaws in the laws -- When the boys fall out -- Murder with a twist -- Corralling corrupt cops -- 'Hang me!' pleads pretty boy -- Guys and molls -- The great escape -- You wouldn't bet on it! -- Chapter 09. Inside enemy walls -- Married to the media -- Macca names his poison -- Divorce ... as closet as it gets -- Guess who's coming to bed? -- The rise and fall -- The heathen strikes back -- Life with Satan - the hair of the dog -- The great pretender -- The pyjama girl revisited -- Coma girl in love trance -- Life without Satan - thereby hangs a tail -- Chapter 10. The awful truth -- Robert Menzies escapes goal -- Ghosts and Martians -- That's the spirit -- Nutty Nobby's will -- A case for Alfred Hitchcock -- Tulloch ...The great cup question -- Two Beauts - -- Raped by the law -- Busload of sin in the snow -- A blue with Bolte -- Killer at large -- Saving the vicarage murderer -- Timber! Have a Clayton's -- The flower bed murder -- Well shut my big mouth -- Dishing it out-fiancée style -- The party pooper -- What price justice? -- Lawyer takes the loot - legally! -- When in doubt - faint! -- Calling a halt to libel -- Snedden rejects the head job -- The girl's night out -- This horseman rode side-saddle -- Fruity fly & Thallium -- When is a killer not a killer? |
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Chapter 11. A sporting life -- Upstairs - downstairs -- Rippon 'em In -- Chapter 12. Touch of poison -- Taking a bigger dose of poison -- Dyer'Ere -- The Nicholl ode: -- The three scoops -- The elocution of Jack Dyer -- The ghost busters -- The ghost of Captain Blood -- Have an ale with the whale - or a Bier with the undertaker -- Ball and squelch -- Up for the count -- You don't have to be dead to be stiff -- When RR doesn't stand for Rolls Royce -- The greatest ever - 'I see him in the mirror every morning' -- In terms of endearment -- Who slugged Bill Lawry? -- Hiccup! -- Enjoying a leak at the oasis -- Rex Hunt & the Pavlova -- Dunn like a dinner -- The scoop of the century -- Chapter 13. King of Moomba -- Courting Gillian & taming the shrew -- Giving the golden bear the bird -- Gillian drops her dacks -- Kekovich -- more idle than idol -- Pogo - a jump ahead -- The truth tote - foolproof? - but Sam was no fool -- The saga of slamming Sam -- Nude Sam skins me -- Slamming Sam in the slammer -- Drawing a Bede on Bill -- Ah! Sol -- Going to bat for Meckiff -- Chapter 14. Life behind prison walls -- Innocent-but spent their life behind bars -- The Governor's pleasure -- The hanging of Ronald Ryan -- 'I stopped Ryan goal break'-Governor Grindlay -- Ah! Sol's gone -- A wapping victory -- Editor? To be or not to be -- Sport - the key to all doors -- Caught out on a sticky wicket -- Caught again... different sport -- The hat-trick -- Why Mick was end sore -- Biting himself on the foot -- Some wives do have them -- The dumbest crime of the century, or was it so dumb? -- Somersaults & Pacholli -putting on the dog -- A dog of a boss -- Birds have such sweet timing -- Breaking the code of silence -- League club takes a gamble --Forging to the Finals --The gold nugget -- Fooking' Freddie at the Windsor -- Harry beats all -- Recruiting stories -- Hooroo says Carl -- Recruiting a Brownlow -- Hello...hello! -- The short way around Australia -- Up there Cazaly -- The Whitten word -- Eeenie... meenie...mynie... No! -- Chapter 15. Racing daze - first comes the germ -- Not now Josephine -- Howard's way -- eating humble horse -- Hayes makes the sun shine -- Is this man mad? -- SAJC gp Crackers -- Let he without sin... -- How now you fool -- Pious pyers the Parisian terrorist -- Robin Hood of Dowling Forest -- Aquanita's working holiday -- Chapter 16. The pacing game -- Home alone -- Biting the hand that fed him -- The revenge of the nerds -- The settling -- The hothead with a hotplate -- Shafted by the great leg pull -- Splashdown! back to earth -- Out for life! -- Decorum and a modest trotting miracle -- Donnybrook with Murdoch |
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Chapter 17. Life without truth -- The slug, the toad and the roo -- The precious Don Bradman -- Back on the pace -- Knights of Gold -- Hothead Howard -- Gun drawn at Valley Red Hots -- Inside Howard's head -- A taxing time... -- Even the Greats make mistakes -- And even I... can be wrong -- It only happens to champions -- Chapter 18. Publican poison- -- Knock on any door -- The Caine toads -- The door prize -- Tiger Morris leaves me to it... -- Taking the Tigers out of Homebush -- Up my nose -- The Homebush -- Life as a Publican can be a killer -- Have a Clayton's -- Women can be a pane in the pub -- The flying chef -- Spearing Colin again -- The Abbotsford street axeman -- Homebush - the pub of the year -- Chapter 19. Mongrels I've met -- The sting -- The stingers gets stung -- Oh! Pal -- Fools gold -- ...then there was Cobbermate sport -- The day the Daredevil died -- Swizzle Dick -- Oh Rats! a dry arrangement -- White ant day - caught in the spider's webb -- No, no, Nanette - don't... -- The Pub of theives -- A dose of the trots -- Taking millions from Neil Mitchell -- Insurance bullies boycott kids -- Saving the Tigers skin -- A star is born -- Magpie chief gives back my $50,000 -- The little shop of losers -- A Sunday punch -- My own worst enemy -- Copping a rotten Ronnie Shirtfront -- My lawyer receives death sentence |
| Summary |
Respected Aust'n journalist who has worked in the realms of sport, crime, social justice, entertainment and more |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Hansen, Brian.
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Hansen, Brian (Brian Edward)
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| SUBJECT |
Truth (Melbourne ed.)
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True crime stories.
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Sportscasters -- Australia -- Biography.
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Authors, Australian -- Biography.
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Sports -- Australia -- Anecdotes.
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Sportswriters -- Australia -- Biography.
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Crime and the press -- Australia.
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Criminals -- Australia -- Anecdotes.
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Journalists -- Australia -- Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Biography.
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Autobiographies.
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Anecdotes.
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| ISBN |
1876151161 |
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9781876151164 |
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