Another Book
I finished reading Owen Scott's Deep Beyond the Reef : A True Story of Madness and Murder in the South Pacific. It is a well written true crime story about the brutal double murder of Fiji Red Cross director John Scott and his partner Greg Schrivener. It's not a coincidence that there are two Scotts in the last two senescence, the author is the deceased brother. This is an incredibly personal perspective for homicide non-fiction to be written from, and yet remains objective enough that the book is more than a personal memoir of grief. That the whole story takes place in Suva made it very visceral reading for me. Highly recommended if you can get a hold of it. We have it in our library, and you could order it from our bookstore, or AmazonUK, and Powell's will get it for you if you order online. AmazonUS and your local library won't have it.
posted by rose @ 8:56 AM
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From Peceli
The Scott family are really a kai Viti family and they gave their whole life for Fiji and for one of the Scotts who was known as a RED CROSS man to be murdered in such a dreadful way will never be forgotton by us all. He was such a good man during the Speight coup May-July 2000 in visiting the men and women who were detained in Parliament.
I hope that all those who read the book will learn something from the terrible thing that happened.
H.L Mencken will assist you in the realizing rhetoric and it's applications in Fiji politics.
I'll bet you can't find a book by him in U.S.P library.
Ah, a Baltimore connection.
I used to live in Baltimore, Menken's home town and have read plenty.
The house he was murdered in is available for lease now, actually. It's a beautiful house too. On a positive note, the events that took place there seem to add a layer of security to the property...some people are scared to go near the place.
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