Author Lucy Sussex shares the gripping story of Australia's first female crime writer, Mary Fortune, and her career-criminal son, George. Under male pseudonyms, Mary wrote poetry, fiction and chronicled life on the goldfields, including Buninyong. When she died, she was largely forgotten, but dedicated research has unearthed her extraordinary life.
Lucy Sussex has worked as a librarian, researcher, academic, and newspaper columnist. In 2025, she and Megan Brown published Outrageous Fortunes, a biography of Mary Fortune, and Nothing But Murders, a collection of Fortune's detective fiction.
