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Issue Details: First known date: 2014... 2014 Mrs Mort's Madness
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'Four days before Christmas in 1920, Dorothy Mort shot her lover dead in cold blood. The tragic end to her affair with dashing young doctor, cricket star and War hero, Dr Claude Tozer, scandalised Sydney. Dorothy’s respectable husband was devastated.

'Following a trial that mesmerised the public and sent the media into a frenzy, the troubled North Shore mother of two and budding actress was declared ‘not guilty on the ground of insanity’.

'After nine years in Long Bay Gaol, Dorothy was released and returned to live quietly with her husband . . . But was she really mad, or bad, or neither? And what was the secret that her husband kept for the rest of his life?

'In an absorbing blend of investigative non-fiction and biography, Suzanne Falkiner delves into the case that has intrigued Sydney for almost 100 years.' (Publication summary)

Notes

  • True crime.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Surry Hills, Inner Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,: Xou Creative , 2014 .
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      Extent: xiii, 290 pp.
      Description: illus., ports
      Note/s:
      • Published December 2014
      ISBN: 9781922057914

Works about this Work

A Sensational Case Gets a New Approach Warren Fahey , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 18 April 2015; (p. 26-27) The Age , 18 April 2015; (p. 26)

— Review of Mrs Mort's Madness Suzanne Falkiner , 2014 single work biography
A Sensational Case Gets a New Approach Warren Fahey , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 18 April 2015; (p. 26-27) The Age , 18 April 2015; (p. 26)

— Review of Mrs Mort's Madness Suzanne Falkiner , 2014 single work biography
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