The Fabulous Flying Mrs Miller: An Australian's true story of adventure, danger, romance and murder
✍ Scribed by Baxter, Carol
- Book ID
- 109910218
- Publisher
- Allen & Unwin
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 5 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781760290771
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✦ Synopsis
Mrs Keith Miller, internationally known aviatrix, was taken to the county jail here today and held for investigation by State Attorney's investigators. Jail attendants said they understood she was held in connection with the shooting of an airline pilot.'
Petite, glamorous and beguiling, Jessie 'Chubbie' Miller was one remarkable woman ... flyer, thrill seeker, heartbreaker. No adventure was too wild for her, no danger too extreme. And all over the world men adored her.
When the young Jessie left suburban Melbourne and her newspaperman husband in 1927, little did she know that she'd become the first woman to complete an England to Australia flight (with a black silk gown thrown into her small flight bag, just in case), or fly the first air race for women with Amelia Earhart, or that she would disappear over the Florida Straits feared lost forever only to charm her way to a rescue. Nor could she have predicted that five years later she'd find herself at the centre of one of...