Hanging Ned Kelly

Download or read book Hanging Ned Kelly written by Michael Adams and published by Affirm Press. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Hanging Ned Kelly, Elijah Upjohn's tale becomes the rusty scalpel that slices open the underbelly of colonial Victoria. Written by Michael Adams, creator of the acclaimed podcast Forgotten Australia, this is an odyssey into an infernal underworld seething with serial killers, clueless cops, larrikin vigilantes, renegade reporters, racist settlers, furious fallen women and cunning waxworks showmen. Looming over them all: the depraved hangmen paid to execute convicted men and women - some of them innocent or unfairly condemned - in Melbourne before it was marvellous.