Gangsters' Women by John Kerr

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Sunning to top foredge.

Gangsters lead complicated lives. One way or another, their women share the ride until the prison door shuts for too many years or an early grave opens. The public most often gets to see these women when they enter and exit courtrooms, or attend funerals when the gangster they share blood or a bed with is, one way or another, going down.

Some Melbourne women, around the shifting cast of male characters that make up the town's gangland, have had to cope with crime in their midst, always have, and the crop of the late 1990s - early 2000s was a bumper. Many of the warrior women lived out their lives in public. They used media to express themselves, send messages to players, vent their passion, seek therapy, perform, and make wardrobe statements!

Women featured include Roberta of Melbourne, the women of the organisation of H and rent-a-kill's Lady Macbeth.