The Pyjama Girl
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
One of Australia's most baffling and enduring criminal mysteries comes to life in The Pyjama Girl, Robert Coleman's gripping account of the infamous 1934 case that captivated a nation for a decade. The story begins with the gruesome discovery of an unidentified young woman's charred body near Albury, New South Wales — dressed in yellow silk pyjamas — and follows the extraordinary ten-year investigation that would test the limits of forensic science, police procedure, and public obsession before a controversial identification and conviction were finally secured. Coleman's meticulous narrative chronicles the sensational twists of a case that became as much about institutional determination as it was about justice, raising profound questions regarding identity, immigration, and the treatment of women in mid-twentieth-century Australia. Written with the authority of careful research, The Pyjama Girl stands as a cornerstone document of Australian true crime literature, illuminating a society grappling with modernity and the darker undercurrents of its own mythology — leaving the reader to wonder whether the full truth of what happened on that lonely roadside was ever truly uncovered.
Author: Robert Coleman
Format: Hardback
Published: 1978, The Hawthorn Press, Melbourne
Genre: True crime
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
One of Australia's most baffling and enduring criminal mysteries comes to life in The Pyjama Girl, Robert Coleman's gripping account of the infamous 1934 case that captivated a nation for a decade. The story begins with the gruesome discovery of an unidentified young woman's charred body near Albury, New South Wales — dressed in yellow silk pyjamas — and follows the extraordinary ten-year investigation that would test the limits of forensic science, police procedure, and public obsession before a controversial identification and conviction were finally secured. Coleman's meticulous narrative chronicles the sensational twists of a case that became as much about institutional determination as it was about justice, raising profound questions regarding identity, immigration, and the treatment of women in mid-twentieth-century Australia. Written with the authority of careful research, The Pyjama Girl stands as a cornerstone document of Australian true crime literature, illuminating a society grappling with modernity and the darker undercurrents of its own mythology — leaving the reader to wonder whether the full truth of what happened on that lonely roadside was ever truly uncovered.