TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shaw,Ian W.
TI  - Murder at dusk: how US soldier and smiling psychopath Eddie Leonski terrorised wartime Melbourne 
SN  - 9780733640452 (paperback)
U1  - 364.15232/099451 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Sydney, N.S.W.
PB  - Hachette Australia
KW  - Leonski, Edward Joseph,
KW  - World War (1939-1945)
KW  - fast
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Australia
KW  - Victoria
KW  - Serial murderers
KW  - United States
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Serial murders
KW  - Melbourne
KW  - Murderers
KW  - Americans
KW  - Armed Forces
KW  - Murder
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Murderers - United States - Case studies
KW  - Leonski, Edward Joseph, 1917-1942
KW  - Melbourne (Vic.) - Social conditions - 1939-1945
KW  - Americans - Australia - History - 20th century
KW  - World War II, 1939-1945 - Australia
KW  - United States - Armed Forces - Australia
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Melbourne (Vic.)
KW  - 1939-1945
KW  - True crime stories
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references
N2  - Far away from any World War II battlefront, the citizens of Melbourne lived in fear of a serial killer - the Brownout Strangler. May 1942: Melbourne was torn between fearing Japanese invasion and revelling in the carnival atmosphere brought by the influx of 15,000 cashed-up American servicemen. But those US forces didn't guarantee safety. Not long after their arrival, the city would be gripped by panic when the body of a woman was found strangled, partially naked and brutally beaten. Six days later another woman was found dead and her body told the same horrific story. A murderer was stalking the streets. As women were warned not to travel alone, an intense manhunt ensued. Not long after a third woman was murdered, American soldier Eddie Leonski was arrested. A calculating psychopath, he had a twisted fascination with female voices, especially when they were singing . . . Acclaimed author Ian W. Shaw brings World War II Melbourne to life, and takes us into the mind of the Brownout Strangler, and a very different kind of terror
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