The Death of Dora Black begins with a body washed up beneath Glenelg Jetty...
In 1915, Moonta-born Kate Cocks became the first policewoman in the British Empire employed on the same salary as men and with the same powers of arrest. She ran the groundbreaking Women’s Police Branch for the next 20 years and, on her retirement, was described by one of her police commissioners as “the biggest woman I’ve ever met”.
Best-selling author Lainie Anderson discusses her PhD research into the life of pioneering policewoman Kate Cocks, and her subsequent murder-mystery novel, The Death of Dora Black.
Devonshire Tea provided
The City of Holdfast Bay Libraries has organised this event.
