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    Angel of Death: Dulcie Markham, Australia’s most beautiful bad woman

    Leigh Straw

    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…

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    Lillian Armfield: How Australia’s first female detective took on Tilly Devine and the Razor Gangs and changed the face of the force

    Leigh Straw

    The fascinating and unknown story of Australia’s first female detective - and a gripping and colourful account of Sydney crime in the 1920s to 1940s

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    The Worst Woman in Sydney: The Life and Crimes of Kate Leigh

    Leigh Straw

    Matriarch of the criminal underworld a | or the Robin Hood of inner Sydney? The legend of Kate Leigh, Sydney’s famed brothel madam, sly grog seller and drug dealer, has…

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    The Petticoat Parade: Madam Monnier and the Roe Street Brothels

    Leigh Straw

    A true crime biography and social history of Josie de Bray’s life is the latest book from award-winning author, Leigh Straw.

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    Lillian Armfield

    Leigh Straw

    The fascinating and unknown story of Australia’s first female detective - and a gripping and colourful account of Sydney crime in the 1920s to 1940s

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    After the War: Returned Soldiers and the Mental and Physical Scars of World War 1

    Leigh Straw

    In Collie in 1929, a murder-suicide took place. The killer was identified as Andrew Straw. Dressed in war uniform and a slouch hat, a hauntingly familiar face stared out at…

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    Angel of Death: Dulcie Markham, Australia’s Most Beautiful Bad Woman

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    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…

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    The Ballroom Murder

    Leigh Straw

    The Ballroom Murder is a true crime story that gripped Perth nearly 100 years ago, and demonstrates the power of the press and privilege in an extraordinary judicial outcome.

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    Drunks, Pests and Harlots: Criminal Women in Perth and Fremantle, 1900-1939

    Leigh S. L. Straw

    Esther Warden was the ‘terror’ of West End Fremantle and the most dangerous woman in Western Australia. Lilly Doyle kept company with thieves and rogues and was listed as an…

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