About
Born in Sydney, Australia. Began my 53-year-career as a journalist in Grafton, NSW, and moved to Brisbane, Qld, in 1949 after finishing my cadetship on the Daily Telegraph in Sydney. I didn't know it at the time, but the move to The Telegraph in Brisbane opened a door that admitted me to a box seat from which I could watch, and at times become involved in, 50 years of fascinating Queensland history.
During my career, I worked for all the major Brisbane newspapers interspersed with a few years in the Australian Army, service in Vietnam, and even a stint in television. I was heavily involved in the Australian Journalists' Association as honorary secretary and twice as president.
After retiring at 70, I have returned to investigate some of the murders I covered and published those stories as part of Jack Sim's Classic Crimes series. I have now initiated my own self-publishing venture, Seagle Crime Stories. In these small, reasonably priced books, I review some of Queensland's unsolved disappearances and murders. The first is Marjorie Norval: The Girl a Railway Station Swallowed, about the mysterious disappearance of a woman from Brisbane's Central railway station in November, 1938.
