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Author Sutton, Candace, 1958-

Title The Needle in the heart murder : the mysterious death of Dr Yeates / Candace Sutton
Published Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, [2003]
© 2003
©2003

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Description xx, 260 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
regular print
Contents Introduction - Sydney 1960 -- Prologue - Death in Vaucluse -- Murder one -- Five brothers -- Hole in the heart -- Sawbones -- The going price -- Goodbye Jim -- Men in hats -- Short of a gallop -- The Gunner -- Abnormal result -- Rocky returns -- Burn the dress -- So much blood -- Exhibit 26 -- Full regalia -- Three witches -- Last will -- Calypso summer -- Two skulls -- Battle of wills - Don't ask -- Person or persons -- Hurly-burly -- Wedding bells -- Nobody's funeral -- Epilogue - Aftermath
Summary On a hot September night in 1960, Dr James Yeates was beaten about the face and head and stabbed through the heart with a hypodermic syringe. The unsolved Yeates Case has been one the most enduringly mysterious murders in the annals of Australian crime
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 254-255
Audience Adult
Subject Yeates, Diana
Hedberg, Eric
Yeates, James, 1980-
Murder -- Investigation -- Australia -- New South Wales.
Murder -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Case studies.
Crime.
SUBJECT Crime & criminology (Australia )
20th Century history (c 1914+) (Australia )
Genre/Form Case studies.
Case studies.
ISBN 1741141192 (paperback)