Certain Admissions: A Beach, a Body and a Lifetime of Secrets by Gideon Haigh

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. General edgewear. Faint mark on inside front cover. Creasing of spine. Slight skew to book. Pages are sunned.

In December 1949, twenty-year-old Beth Williams was found dead on Albert Park Beach. Twenty-four-year-old John Bryan Kerr, a son of Melbourne's establishment and commercial radio star was arrested for her murder.

Certain Admissions is a real-life police procedural, courtroom drama, family saga, investigative journalism, social history, archival treasure hunt and a meditation on how the past shapes the present, and the present the past.