Chris Adams

PLEASE NOTE: this is a compilation of cold cases as featured in our existing nine Grave Tales titles. Crimes that go unpunished, destined to never be solved, do not allow the stories to end when the victims are laid to rest. These stories start in the graveyards of Australia and as they are largely historic crimes, hold little hope for resolution. In this volume are tales that took away our innocence, shocked us with their cruelty, and at the time, struck fear into the heart of the community. They live on in our history for justice is never served. The stories in this volume are: 1. The Boxing Day murders - the Murphy siblings 2. Something fishy in Coogee: the shark arm murders - Patrick Brady 3. The 'Pyjama Girl' mystery 4. The hands that shaped the noose - Colin Campbell Ross and Alma Tirtschke 5. The poisoning of Mrs Roche 6. The Mystery of Mollie - The Mollie Thompson story 7. Sister or a mister? Bertha and Martha Schippan 8. Once was bright and beautiful - Betty Shanks 9. Australia's first serial killer? Robert Francis Burns 10. Missing, presumed drowned: the Prime Minister Harold Holt 11. Street fighter - Juanita Nielsen 12. Death along Dead Horse Gully - Chrissie Venn 13. Mr & the Mrs Harry Crawfords - Eugenia Falleni 14. The alleged murder of Mrs Wilhelamina Brauer 15. Tamam Shud - The Somerton Man Story.

Filled with clues from NPR's popular news quiz show, Wait, Wait . . . Don't Tell Me!, this collection features 80 new crossword puzzles, perfect for every fan who's been itching to put their own trivia powers to the test! With a foreword by your host Peter Sagal, More Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me! Crossword Puzzles is bound to challenge and delight listeners of the show and die-hard puzzlers alike. • BRAND-NEW PUZZLES FOR WAIT, WAIT FANS: The 80 all-new puzzles in this book include content featured on the last several years of the show, ranging from pop culture to current events. • THERE'S TRIVIA TOO: The book also includes six pages of specialty trivia, perfect for hardcore Wait, Wait . . . Don't Tell Me! fans • A GREAT GIFT FOR THE PUZZLER IN YOUR LIFE: Buy this crossword collection for trivia nerds, pop-culture fanatics, word-game lovers, and public radio enthusiasts.

To distinguish an L&D program that affects learner behavior, you must put results first. Doing so helps you show the value of your work as a learning consultant and demonstrate the value of L&D activities. In this issue of TD at Work, Chris Adams and Beth Hughes introduce the Results Come First framework. You will discover:how results should come first when engaging with clientsthe forces that may throw off the balance of your development initiativeexamples of how the framework works in action.

'Grave Tales: Bruce Highway' will give forgotten events, heroes and victims life again by tracing the journeys that lead to their final resting places. Stories like how two nurses in Maryborough in 1905 gave their lives to save a town from an outbreak of pneumonic plague; the unsolved mystery of how Mollie Thompson's body ended up in an impossibly hard to reach water reservoir; the migrant who created his dream and shared it with generations; the mother and her five children who lost their lives in the Mackay cyclone; how gold fever saved the state from going broke; why the first person to be hanged in Rockhampton goal was a bent cop; the inscription on a tree on the Sunshine Coast that reflects a tumultuous sea journey; and the 13 RAAF members who came to rest permanently in Townsville, to name a few.'Grave Tales' features people who willingly or unwillingly were participants in events that made headlines. These people may have lived in the same suburbs, streets, and the same houses as exist now in the cities and towns along the Bruce Highway. Grave Tales is researched and written by journalists, Helen Goltz and Chris Adams; between them they have years of experience in newspapers, radio and television production and reporting.

In cemeteries throughout Australia, gravestones hint at our history - tales of early settlement, unsolved murders, love lost, mystery, tragedy, health epidemics, scandal and sacrifice. Grave Tales reveals more than the headstone can ever convey by tracing the tumultuous journeys that lead to these final resting places. Grave Tales: Great Ocean Road Country - Geelong to Port Fairy visits established cemeteries and burial places off-the-beaten-track to feature people who willingly or unwillingly were participants in events that made local and national headlines. They may have lived in the same suburbs, streets, and even the same houses as exist now, or unexpectantly came to rest between Geelong and Port Fairy. Meet the ladies of the lighthouse who led an isolated life; the unionist shot in an affray; the stage actor whose career ended too soon; the men who sighted the fabled Mahogany Ship; the two survivors of a shipwreck that everyone wanted to see married, but it wasn't to be; the inventor of the Ute and what inspired his unusual design; and the lady who rests in a 'donated' isolated beach grave. These are just some of the stories from the grave in the second book in the Grave Tales series incorporating Geelong, Lorne, Apollo Bay, Cape Otway, Loch Ard Gorge, Warrnambool, Tower Hill and Port Fairy.

In The Grail Guitar: The Search for Jimi Hendrix’s Purple Haze Telecaster, Chris Adams takes readers on a fascinating mystery tour to determine whether a Fender Telecaster bought secondhand in a London music store in 1973 was the one used by Jimi Hendrix to record “Purple Haze” in January 1967. The only clues are its left-handed tuners and the salesman’s chance remark that the guitar was brought into the shop by a Hendrix roadie. But these are enough to set the author off on this intriguing journey into Hendrix history. With firsthand details from model Linda Keith, who discovered Hendrix in New York, Adams recounts how the rising star left for London with a white Stratocaster belonging to Keith Richards. The man who made Hendrix’s pedals explains how this Strat failed to make the “Purple Haze” recording session and how it was replaced by a borrowed Telecaster. As Adams tracks down the surviving musicians, they shed light on the fate of that Telecaster and gradually the two guitars begin to merge into one. Throughout, Adams weaves his own story as a rock musician and tells how, against the odds, he managed to hold on to this remarkable instrument. Here is a riveting story of one man seeking the truth about a cultural artifact that changed rock history, a story for rock fans and guitar aficionados, treasure hunters and antique dealers, as well as anyone who likes a detective story.