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

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Pages have 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 shapes the past.