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Amaze Your Friends by Peter Doyle
$24.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction
As 1959 dawns, Billy Glasheen is in deeper trouble than ever. The past has caught up with him in the form of Fred Slaney, Sydney's meanest, most corrupt cop, who's got Billy framed up for the murder of his crooked partner. Not that Slaney wants to arrest him - what he wants is ten grand. He gives Billy ...Show more
City of Shadows - Sydney Police Photographs 1912-1948 by Peter Doyle; Caleb Williams
$65.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
In the late 1980s a vast collection of forensic crime photography, created by the New South Wales Police between 1912 and 1960, was rescued by the Historic Houses Trust from a flooded warehouse. This book draws on Peter Doyles extensive research into these fascinating and often eerily beautiful images o ...Show more
Crooks Like Us by Peter Doyle
$49.95 AUD
Category: True Crime
In the 1920s Sydney police began quietly assembling a gallery of the citys most light-fingered, fleet-footed, silver-tongued rogues con artists, magsmen, housebreakers, thugs, gunmen, shoplifters, drug dealers, pickpockets and hooligans. These extraordinary images resurfaced in the 1980s, long after the ...Show more
Desert Knight by Robin Schäfer; Peter Doyle; Gunter Halm
$65.99 AUD
Category: Military
The Knight's Cross was the German Army's highest award for valor, and only 0.04 per cent of the soldiers who served in the Second World War received this prestigious medal; even fewer survived. In this extremely rare memoir, G nter Halm recounts his experiences with the Afrika Korps where he was employe ...Show more
Get Rich Quick by Peter Doyle
$24.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction
Meet Billy Glasheen, a fresh voice in crime fiction. It’s Sydney, the 1950s, and Billy’s trying to make a living, any way he can. Luckily, he’s a likeable guy, with a gift for masterminding elaborate scenarios--whether it’s a gambling scam, transporting a fortune in stolen jewels, or keeping the wheels ...Show more
Suburban Noir: Crime and Mishap in 1950s and 1960s Sydney - Shortlisted for The Age Nonfiction Book of the Year Awards 2023 by Peter Doyle
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Nothing in the post-war decades reveals the underbelly of Australian life the way police records do.Small time heists. Failed robberies. Runs of bad luck. Payback. Love gone wrong. Drink, drugs and late-night assignations. Cops doing their job well. And badly. Plausible lies, unlikely truths. Murder and ...Show more
The Big Whatever by Peter Doyle (Warwick Business School University of Greenwich, UK Warwick Business School Warwick Business School Warwick Business School University of Greenwich, UK Warwick Business School Warwick Business School Warwick Business School University of Greenwich, UK)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
As the swinging '60s turn into the '70s, Billy Glasheen is stuck in the slow lane. He's deep in debt to the mob, driving a taxi, running low-level rackets. One day he finds a trashy novel in his cab - and he's the main character! Only Max could've written it, his double-crossing ex- partner in crime. Ex ...Show more
The Devil's Jump by Peter Doyle
$24.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction
Winner of three Ned Kelly awards for Crime Fiction. August 1945: the Japanese have surrendered and there's dancing in the streets of Sydney. But Billy Glasheen has little time to celebrate; his black marketeer boss has disappeared, leaving Billy high and dry. Soon he's on the run from the criminals and ...Show more
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