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Journalist Sleuths

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

Who better than newshounds to uncover mysteries and track down murderers? Three Melbourne authors, Louise Milligan (Shellybanks), Laraine Stephens (The White Feather Murders), and Madeleine Cleary (The Butterfly Women), talk about how and why journalists make such superlative investigators with former journalist and crime author, Dr Liz Porter.

$55 – $65

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