The Dark Prince of Melbourne: The short, flashy life of Squizzy Taylor and the birth of organised crime, from the top crime author of The Golde

The Dark Prince of Melbourne: The short, flashy life of Squizzy Taylor and the birth of organised crime, from the top crime author of The Golde by Ian W. Shaw


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9780733344299
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Bad boys, bright lights and sorry ends: the story of a gangster.

Joseph Leslie 'Squizzy' Taylor was many things to many people: a kind and caring husband, father and stepfather, a reliable son and brother, a generous and considerate neighbour and patron. He was also a criminal willing to consider any type of crime, provided it supported his lifestyle and his ego.Squizzy graduated from teenage pickpocket to adult murderer, from organising smash-and-grab raids on jewellers to corrupting juries and suborning witnesses. And he was nothing if not newsworthy. Whether appearing at the opening night of a new show at the top end of Bourke Street or climbing the steps en route to an appearance in the Supreme Court, Squizzy was news.For more than a decade, Victoria's best detectives were unable to pin any one of a dozen major crimes he organised on him. Yet he met his match when street punk turned gunman Snowy Cutmore turned up in a darkened bedroom in a boarding house in Carlton.In this first detailed biography of arguably Australia's most well-known standover man, Ian W. Shaw traces the life of the criminal who set the trend in city gangster life in Australia.
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