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03063aam a2200385 i 4500 001 F52E566A56B111EEB3013A8641ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230919010045 008 230605t20232023sa abch b 000 0deng d 020 $a 177619277X 020 $a 9781776192779 035 $a (OCoLC)1381129786 040 $a Z@L $b eng $e rda $c Z@L $d Z@L $d Z6B $d YDX $d ZCU $d GZM $d X$@ $d NUI $d IaU $d SILO 043 $a f-sa--- 050 4 $a HV6535.S63 $b B68 2023 082 04 $a 364.15230968 $2 23/eng/20230605 100 1 $a Botha, Ted, $e author. 245 10 $a Daisy de Melker : $b hiding among killers in the city of gold / $c Ted Botha. 264 1 $a Johannesburg : $b Jonathan Ball Publishers, $c 2023. 300 $a ix, 326 pages : $b illustrations, maps, portraits, facsimiles ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "Mother. Nurse. Gold-digger. Cause célèbre. When Daisy de Melker stood trial in 1932, accused of poisoning her son and two husbands, the public couldn't get enough of her. Crowds gathered outside court baying for blood, and she waved to them like a celebrity. Against the backdrop of Johannesburg in its golden age, a booming metropolis of opulence and chaos nicknamed the 'City of Gold' and the 'University of Crime', she had quietly gone about her sinister business while around her sensational crimes grabbed the headlines. There was the marauding Foster Gang, which left at least ten people dead; a dashing German hustler; a local Bonnie and Clyde; an innocent student walking in Zoo Lake park at the wrong time and a man who escaped death row to become one of South Africa's most revered authors. These interlinking stories are told in the style of a thriller and with riveting, kaleidoscopic detail. In Daisy de Melker, Ted Botha weaves together a fantastic cast of killers and con men, detectives and lawmen, journalists and authors - even Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Herman Charles Bosman - to depict a grand and desperate city. For almost twenty years Daisy hid in the shadows but when someone finally spoke up about the suspicious deaths around her, it led to a trial like nothing the City of Gold had ever seen and spread her name across the world."--Back cover. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-323). 505 0 $a Part 1: The set-up, 1913-1915 -- Part 2: Arms of the law, 1916-1921 -- Part 3. The quiet execution of her plan, 1922-1926 -- Part 4: Between deaths, 1928-1931 -- Part 5: Poisons and strategies, 1932 -- Part 6: Setting Daisy free 600 10 $a De Melker, Daisy, $d 1886-1932. 650 0 $a Serial murderers $z South Africa. 650 0 $a Crime $z Johannesburg. $z Johannesburg. 650 0 $a Gangs $z Johannesburg. $z Johannesburg. 650 0 $a Organized crime $z South Africa. 650 0 $a Women murderers $z South Africa. 650 7 $a Serial murders. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01113115 650 7 $a Serial murderers. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01113110 651 7 $a South Africa. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204616 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117015438.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F52E566A56B111EEB3013A8641ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search