Angel of Death: Dulcie Markham, Australia's Most Beautiful Bad Woman by Leigh Straw
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Product Details
Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9780733339660
Author: Leigh Straw
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: ABC Books
Place: Sydney NSW
Year: 2019
Format: Paperback
Pages: 320 pages
Period: 20th Century
Book Description
Secondhand. Very good condition. Ex library copy with all external stickers removed. Sticky tape on inside front cover. Minor wear to book corners and edges.
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)
Angel of Death: Dulcie Markham, Australia's Most Beautiful Bad Woman by Leigh Straw
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