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Originally Posted by Pulpmeister
One of my books is a non-fiction, true-crime book about a serial killer in the Australian outback. It was a very unusual case because detective writer Arthur Upfield, then a beginning author and an itinterant boundary rider, devised a scheme around a campfire to destroy a dead body using only the tools and equipment available on outback stations. This was the centre of his novel The Sands of Windee. However, by the time the novel was published in 1931, one of the men around that campfire had put the scheme in practice in real life. Three men vanished without trace (well, almost without trace). The killer was caught and eventually hanged.
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Fascinating. What is this book? I'm interested in reading it!