Leigh Straw: 4 books
Worst Woman in Sydney
The Life and Crimes of Kate Leigh
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Matriarch of the criminal underworld … or the Robin Hood of inner Sydney?The legend of Kate Leigh, Sydney’s famed brothel madam, sly grog seller and drug dealer, has loomed large in TV’s Underbelly and every other account of Sydney’s criminal history from the 1920s to the 1960s. But she has...
Lillian Armfield
How Australia's first female detective took on Tilly Devine and the Razor Gangs and changed the face of the force
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
An engaging account of an extraordinary, trailblazing woman - Australia's first female detective - LILLIAN ARMFIELD is also the vivid and gripping story of the origins of Sydney's organised crime underbelly.
'Special Constable' Lillian Armfield was policing Sydney's mean streets during some...
Angel Of Death
Dulcie Markham, Australia's most beautiful bad woman
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2019
The newspapers called her 'Australia's most beautiful bad woman' and she was deadly to know... This is the story of 'pretty' Dulcie Markham, a key figure of the underworld of Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth, who, according to one crime reporter, 'saw more violence and death than any other woman...
