
For starters, all of the labels had been removed from his clothing and a tiny piece of rolled up paper was found hidden inside a fob pocket in his trousers. A lot of weird stuff was going on with him.

In 1948, the body of a man was found at Somerton Beach just south of Adelaide. Let’s begin with a mystery that began in our own backyard.

Where did they go? Who took them? What made their hair turn white and their eyes turn black?īelow you’ll find some of the mysteries I was obsessed with when I was growing up – mysteries that also inspired some of the twists and turns in House of Hollow.

One month later, the sisters reappeared on the same street they’d been taken from, entirely unharmed but ever so slightly. At the heart of House of Hollow is an infamous (albeit fictional) unsolved mystery: What happened to the Hollow sisters? Ten years ago on New Year’s Eve in Edinburgh, three girls – Grey, 11, Vivi, 9 and Iris, 7 – disappeared from under their parents’ watchful gaze.
