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

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Ex library book with stickers, stamps and protective plastic covering. Minor wear to book corners, edges and foredges. Book is complete but binding has been repaired.

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 and Brisbane, 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 ... (publisher blurb)