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  • 20th Law Week event. A is for Arsenic, D is for Death Cap

    Sir Zelman Cowen Centre, Victoria University, Queen Street Campus Heritage Courtyard Lecture Theatre, 295 Queen Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

    Exploring the many dimensions of poison as the ‘women’s weapon’ will be Chloe Hooper, co-author of The Mushroom Tapes; Linda Glowacki, toxicologist from the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine & Angela Savage on Agatha Christie and poisons; and host Vikki Petraitis. Poison was historically considered the archetypal 'woman's weapon' as it required no special strength, only access and opportunity, things generally afforded women in their domestic role. Or is this an old, made-up sawhorse?

    $10 – $20

  • The Gone

    The Rising Sun Hotel cnr Raglan Street and Eastern Road, South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Three authors - Sarah Bailey, Sherryl Clark, and Mali Cornish. - explore the many dimensions of ‘the gone’ -the missing - with crime writer, Katherine Kovacic.

    $55 – $65

  • Melbourne Rare Book Week: Digging for Dirt – Criminal inspiration from the archives

    Prahran Mechanics Institute 39 St Edmonds Road, Prahran, VIC, Australia

    Sisters in Crime and the Prahran Mechanics Institute are partnering to present a special Melbourne Rare Book Week event , Digging for Dirt – Criminal inspiration from the archives. Tara Oldfield and Lucy Sussex will be discussing the critical role that archival research plays in creating historical crime writing, both fiction and non-fiction.

    Free