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

The newspapers called her 'Australia's most beautiful bad woman' and she was deadly to know... This is...
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Author: Leigh Straw
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Angel of Death: Dulcie Markham, Australia's Most Beautiful Bad Woman by Straw, Leigh

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

$50.18

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

$50.18
Author: Leigh Straw
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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 in Australia's history'. Nicknamed the 'Black Widow' and 'Angel of Death' by the crooks, reporters and police who knew her best, Dulcie's lovers were stabbed and gunned down in the most violent years of Australian crime, the 1920s to the 1950s. Not always by her ...

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'For readers new to the history of this appalling yet enthralling era of organised crime, the book will simply astonish' Catie Gilchrist, author of Murder, Misadventure and Miserable Ends, Tales from a Colonial Coroner's Court



Author: Leigh Straw
Publisher: ABC Books
Published: 07/28/2020
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780733339660

About the Author
Straw, Leigh: - Leigh Straw is Arts Coordinator and Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Notre Dame in Perth. She's passionate about Australian history and enjoys sharing compelling Australian stories with up to 500 students every year. Her interest in Australian crime history developed from when she lived in the Darlinghurst and Surry Hills areas of Sydney. Over the last ten years she's written both fiction and popular non-fiction work. The Worst Woman in Sydney, about Kate Leigh, was published in 2016 by NewSouth. It was shortlisted for an ABIA. Lillian Armfield: Australia's first woman detective was published by Hachette in 2018.

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