The Night was a Bright Moonlight and I Could See a Man Quite Plain
An Edwardian Cricket Murder
$16.98
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
6 July 2022
Summary
Gideon Haigh has written numerous acclaimed books on both cricket and true-crime – now he’s unearthed a gripping story that combines the two, in a masterpiece of historical detective work that ties back to the origin of the Ashes …
On the night of 23 September 1910, on a station 500km west of Brisbane, farm hand John Neil was beaten to death with a cricket bat. The prime suspect, George Vernon, was the fresh-faced twenty-four-year-old son of one of England’s most famous amateur cricke…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781761108266 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1761108263 |
| Author: | Gideon Haigh |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster Australia |
| Imprint: | Scribner Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 6 July 2022 |
| Weight: | 170g |
| Dimensions: | 110mm x 178mm |
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Gideon Haigh
Gideon Haigh has published more than fifty books and contributed to more than a hundred newspapers and magazines in a decades-long journalism career. His cricket books include The Cricket War, The Summer Game, and On Warne. He has written on subjects ranging from abortion, asbestos, and architecture to incest and H.V. Evatt.
The Office: A Hardworking History won the NSW Premier’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction, and Certain Admissions won a Ned Kelly Prize for true crime. Haigh has appeared widely on radio and TV and lives in Melbourne.
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