A Cold Wind Down the Grey: Based on a True Crime Story, Wendy M. Wilson
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A Cold Wind Down the Grey: Based on a True Crime Story

Author: Wendy M. Wilson

Narrator: Sam Devereaux

Unabridged: 8 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Published: 06/06/2020

Genre: Fiction - Historical

Synopsis

Greymouth, New Zealand, 1866: The Burgess gang was in town, and a young surveyor from one of the country's leading families had vanished in the back country. Inspector James has never forgotten that year.

In the gold mining town of Greymouth, where drunks fell asleep smoking and burned down their houses, the town was constantly inundated with floods, and fifty-seven hotels had sprung up in a year to accommodate the hordes of miners and gold thieves, Inspector William Henry James was tasked with keeping the town safe with a small force of troopers.

In 1888, forced into retirement by government cuts, James walks home beside the Whanganui River remembering his association with a series of murders by the notorious Burgess gang: back in 1866 he had forced the gang to leave Greymouth. The gang took a steamer up to Nelson and within days killed five men on the Maungatapu Track. Soon after, Inspector James discovered the body of a young surveyor, George Dobson, murdered by Burgess and his crew. The gang was gone, but one guilty man remained, and James was determined to bring him to trial. The events that transpired haunted him for the rest of his life.

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