Review: What odd mysteries!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 13, 2012
I read the synopsis.. and was intrigued by the story about the scientist who was mysteriously murdered.. along with a nurse.. and the ODD fact.. that the USA FBI investigated the murders for over 7 months.. and to this day.. will NOT reveal WHY they investigated it.The novel gives VERY intimate details of what is known about the timeline of the scientist and the nurse.  (they estimate they died roughly an hour and a half apart and were NOT having any type of relations)  They saved tissue samples.. hoping that someday.. a forensic test would be invented for determining what was in the bloodstream of the deceased.  As they died on New Year's Day in 1963.  Forensic science DID finally catch up.. and confirmed what the police thought at the time.. that the two died from an LSD overdose.  Oddly.. they'd been covered up.. so, it indicates they were murdered rather than overdosed.  The scientist was about to take a job in the USA.  From the sounds of his job title.. he would have been involved in helping develop some type of Star Wars technology using lasers.The book has many other strange mysteries that have happened in Australia's long history.  From Aboriginal tribal death curses that only ONE person condemned to death has managed to survive without the aid of someone removing the "curse"... to this day!  A story about the odd disappearance of Australia's Prime Minister (personally.. I think he was eaten whole by a shark).  The story about the falling stones.. now, that one.. has really peaked my interest.  As it's occurred in a few other places on Earth.. and lasted for months and months.. of steady stones falling on a particular home or person.  Just SO weird.. with many MANY known cases.. that have all been well documented.. and yet.. no reasonable explanation at all of the stone shower.The book was well written and well researched! I really enjoyed reading about the various mysteries.  Some of which.. I will be seeking further information.. to hopefully satisfy my curiosity as to the causes of some of them.  Especially the shower of warm stones.