On August 8^th, 2014, 30-year-old Gable Tostee pleaded not guilty to the murder of 26-year-old Warriena Wright, who had fallen to her death from the 14^th floor balcony of his Surfers Paradise apartment in the Avalon building that had a striking view of the Gold Coast and Nerang River.

As children, we learned of the One Thousand and One Nights stories that Scheherazade would tell the King in an attempt to save her life. By captivating him with her delightful narratives of Sinbad, Ali Baba and Aladdin, he would allow her to live. If she failed to enchant him, she would die.

English writer Charles Dickens died on June 9, 1870, when he was in the process of writing his last novel Edwin Drood. To this day, the mystery of this character’s passing remains.