The Suicide Bride by Tanya Bretherton

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Ex library copy with no external stickers. Wear to book corners and edges. Sticky tape on inisde front cover. Mark on tail foredge. Body text and binding are still very good.

Whenever society produces a depraved criminal, we wonder: Is it nature or is it nurture? When the charlatan Alicks Sly murdered his wife, Ellie, and killed himself with a cut-throat razor in a house in Sydney's Newtown in early 1904, he set off a chain of events that could answer that question.

He also left behind mysteries that might never be solved. Sociologist Dr Tanya Bretherton traces the brutal story of Ellie, one of many suicide brides in turn-of-the-century Sydney; of her husband, Alicks, and his family; and their three orphaned sons, adrift in the world. (back cover)