Published in 2012 by Hardie Grant Books
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Published in association with the
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Melbourne Victoria 3000 Australia
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Copyright © Kevin J Morgan 2012
The images of Jack Anderson, Clarence Freeman, motorcyclist Fred Piggott Jr, FJ Piggott aged 87, and Alma Tirtschke: courtesy private collection. Clarence Freeman’s drawings: courtesy Public Record Office Victoria. All other illustrations are from the Frederick Piggott scrapbooks, Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library of Victoria. Reproduced with permission.
National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data
Morgan, Kevin John, 1956–
Detective Piggott’s casebook : true tales of murder, madness
and the rise of forensic science / Kevin J Morgan.
eISBN 9781742738161
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Piggott, Frederick.
Forensic sciences—Victoria.
Murder—Investigation—Victoria.
Criminal investigation—Victoria.
364.152309945
Cover design by Peter Long
Text design by Patrick Cannon