Australia’s own ‘Houdini’: The Maxwell Skinner Chronicles

January 16, 2020 Sarah McLean 0
HISTORICAL CRIME: Maxwell Carl Skinner was an unremarkable petty criminal who would go on to scale
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Sarah McLean recently graduated from a Bachelor of Arts (Humanities) (Honours) at Federation University Australia. Now that her head isn’t in the books all the time (with the exception of the occasional novel or true crime book), she has more time to enjoy her true passions – researching and writing about historical crime, films, and narrowing down her ‘to watch’ list. Her feature articles and short stories can also be found in FedPress Magazine. She is a consumer of, and is often consumed by, true crime and popular culture.

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