Psst! It's true! This is the best book on CRIME you'll ever read!Did you know that maggots can help solve crimes? That right-handed criminals run away to the left when they leave a crime scene? That the people who are best at detecting lies are not police but mothers?Once you had to catch a crook red-handed to prove him guilty. Now we can use the pattern of a bloodstain, fingerprints, computers and DNA samples to solve crimes. Even so, mysteries remain, like the Shark Arm murder and the strange case of D.B. Cooper, who jumped out of a plane with $200 000 and was never seen again .Astound your friends with gory fact and stories of true crime.

 

This book features in the following series: It's True, Its True .

There are 96 pages in this book. This book was published 2005 by Allen & Unwin .

Beverley MacDonald has written novels for children and adults. An acclaimed author, her science fiction was included in the 1977 Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy. Her short fiction and non-fiction have been published in numerous anthologies and magazines. She currently lives in a chaotic household in Melbourne with her partner, children and various animals. Andrew Weldon's cartoons have appeared in newspapers, magazines, on greeting cards and as tattoos. He has written and illustrated two children's books, The Kid with the Amazing Head and Clever Trevor's Stupendous Inventions. A former teacher and specialist in the field of engaging reluctant readers, Paul Jennings has published over 100 books, won every Australian children's choice award (several times) and has amassed sales of 9 million copies across the world. Andrew Weldon is a leading Australian cartoonist, who is the author of several successful books, including Andrew Clever Trevor's Stupendous Inventions, The Kid with the Amazing Head, and Lazy Daisy, Busy Lizzie , written by Mary Ellen Jordan.