The book is 224 pages long and has over 100 photos. The content includes the following; 1. INCIDENTS: Escaped prisoners, ship deserters, the notorious Vauxhall Gardens, Caroline the bigamist, Maori prisoners 1869-72 and 1880-1882, Transit of Venus, Myra Smith the baby farmer, the shooting of Mr. Sargood, Amy Bock the serial criminal, floods. 1932 food riots and Abbotsford. 2. ACCIDENTS: Eating tutu, deaths of Thomas Mead, Neil Read and Josiah Evans, shooting of Mr. Curle, tram, trains and boating accidents, drownings and fires. 3. TRAGEDIES: Pride of Yarra, hangings 1866-1898, Cyrus Haley the incendurist, William Larnach, Lionel Terry the anti-Asian, Deborah Bay explosion, the young parachutist, the Seacliff fire and the 1943 Hyde rail crash.