Australia's Son - Jones, Garrick
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"Six deaths, if we include his, my father's, and Fabrice's, Andy," I whispered. "All because of a simple, insignificant error of judgement-Fabrice Evans just gave the wrong address to a madman." A wrongly delivered letter sparks a chain of events that threaten the life of Edward Murray, "Australia's Son", the most renowned operatic baritone of his day. It is 1902, and Edward has just returned to the Metropole Hotel after a performance of La Bohème at the Theatre Royal in Sydney, when the manager phones his apartment to tell him the police have arrived with bad news. Edward, and his vaudeville…mehr

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"Six deaths, if we include his, my father's, and Fabrice's, Andy," I whispered. "All because of a simple, insignificant error of judgement-Fabrice Evans just gave the wrong address to a madman." A wrongly delivered letter sparks a chain of events that threaten the life of Edward Murray, "Australia's Son", the most renowned operatic baritone of his day. It is 1902, and Edward has just returned to the Metropole Hotel after a performance of La Bohème at the Theatre Royal in Sydney, when the manager phones his apartment to tell him the police have arrived with bad news. Edward, and his vaudeville performer brother, Theodore, are shocked to hear that Edward's dresser, the brothers' oldest friend from childhood, has been found dead, stabbed in the back, in Edward's recently vacated dressing room. Following a sequence of gruesome killings, Edward and the detective assigned to protect him, Chief Constable Andrew Bolton, are lured into a trap by a man whose agenda is not only personal, but driven by a deranged mind. The silver lining for Edward during these grisly events is the smell of tar and honey, and the promise of a special friendship with the man tasked with keeping him out of harm's way. Set around the theatre world of early Edwardian Sydney, the story is steeped in the world of class divides, of music and the theatre, and what it was to be a performer at the turn of the twentieth century. Its themes of murder, treachery and foul play, are ofttimes confronting, but the story is linked throughout by Edward Murray, the man with the golden voice, whose overarching belief is that even in the darkest of times, a sliver of light can mean that hope is at hand.
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Garrick Jones Co-founder and partner at Ludic Group, co-author of the book ALIVE: Digital Humans and Their Organizations, academic and investor. Garrick Jones is an entrepreneur, academic and musician based in London. Co-founder and partner of the Ludic Group, he is a renowned expert in digital transformation, digital learning and engagement. Garrick is a fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) where he has taught Capstone programmes in International Relations and designed the ground-breaking Open Innovation Programme. His research is focused on Creative Economies and large-scale support systems for commerce, culture, education and community development in which innovation is critical. He is particularly focused on the value of the design process, visualisation methods and tools for enabling decision-making and constructive problem-solving. Garrick has been instrumental in the development of purpose-built collaborative learning environments (CLEs). He advises on numerous projects for corporations and governments and state-of-the-art think tanks, including the award-winning Future Trends Forum (FTF). He works with Fortune 100 clients, governments, the UN and UNDP. Garrick is interested in how very large systems are able to transform themselves. Garrick lives in London. Wearing his musical hat, Garrick composes for films, contemporary artists and performance. Ask him to play the piano for you if you get the opportunity!