Swamp: Who Killed Margaret Clement?

Biography & Memoir True Crime

Swamp: Who Killed Margaret Clement? by veteran Australian journalist Richard Shears revisits one of the country’s most haunting true-crime cold cases. When wealthy spinster Margaret Clement vanished from her swamp-bound mansion near the Gippsland wetlands in 1952, gossip, fraud, and crocodile-infested terrain conspired to bury the truth.

This hard-to-find 2008 flexi-bound hardcover from New Holland Publishers offers 208 pages of photos, maps and contemporary clippings that bring the mystery to life. The book is inscribed (gift note, not author-signed) and shows honest shelf wear: scuffed covers, light foxing to early page edges, and a previous owner’s name neatly penned twice—nothing that obscures text or photos.

True-crime buffs hunting Australian history, rural noir or Gippsland folklore will snap up this affordable reading copy. Its compact 220 mm height slips easily into a backpack for field trips around the swamp where the story began. Secure your piece of Aussie sleuthing heritage today.