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Book 3
"In a garden it's told
Stands a building of old
Who exhibits magnificent features
Be daring, be bold
And this book may unfold
Who knows what boundaries it breaches."
Book 2
"In every cranny and nook
I will look for this book
And search until I find it
Just a pawn not a rook
My patience is shook
Just as giants who don't look behind it."
Book 1
"Congratulations here's book number one
Now time for some fun
It's time to look for this book
In the centre of Melbourne
You can leave one and take some
And still you won't be a crook."
Book Cover
The exclusive cover of the Look Book. Simplistic and recognizable, if you a set of these eyes staring you down then indeed you've found yourself a look book.
Stop 2 Kerr St/ Brunswick St
In one of the corners of Kerr St, you will find an artwork of a naked woman with an animal’s skull and a metal horn. This is a design of street artist Makatron, which illustrates the evolution or no boundaries concept of humans, nature and…
Stop 5: The Boot Trunk Tragedy
Saving perhaps the most gruesome until last, on the muggy evening of December 17th 1898, a bright yellow suitcase or ‘boot trunk’ was mysteriously floating along the banks of the Yarra River. Up to 300 people stood watching, as the police retrieved…
Stop 4: The Gun Alley Murder
The Gun Alley Murder was the horrific rape and murder of 12 year old Alma Tirtschke, who was found in Gun Alley on December 30, 1921. Unfortunately Gun Alley was built-over and the equivalent location to where present-day Gun Alley would have been is…
Stop 3: The Queen Street Massacre
On the morning of December 8 1987, Frank Vitkovic entered the Australia Post offices on Queen Street and began shooting people at random, killing 8 people. The injured office workers managed to ambush Vitkovic, stashing his shotgun in an office…
Stop 2: The Gun-Fight Showdown
Notorious Joseph Leslie ‘Squizzy’ Taylor was one of Melbourne’s key underworld figures between 1918 until his death in the infamous gunfight of 1927. Squizzy started his life of crime by pickpocketing and small robberies, but was also associated with…
Stop 1: The Singing Strangler
The strangled body of Gladys Hosking, 40, was found outside Melbourne University on May 18, 1942. She was the last victim of serial killer Eddie Leonski ‘The Singing Strangler’, who was an American solider stationed in Melbourne during WWII. Gladys,…