Nearly a century before cocaine bundles started washing up on the Sydney coast, the city’s citizens clamoured to recover a different sort of illicit bounty from the sea: kegs of beer that’d floated free of Malabar, the happiest shipwreck disaster in Australian history.

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The Murder Squad

https://www.booktopia.com.au/the-murder-squad-michael-adams/book/9781922863836.html

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Australia’s Sweetheart

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