Crooks Like Us

Author: Peter Doyle

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  • : $49.95 AUD
  • : 9781876991340
  • : SYDNEY LIVING MUSEUMS
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  • : December 2008
  • : 242mm X 180mm X 30mm
  • : June 2009
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  • : 200+ Images
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Barcode 9781876991340
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Description

In the 1920s Sydney police began quietly assembling a gallery of the citys most light-fingered, fleet-footed, silver-tongued rogues con artists, magsmen, housebreakers, thugs, gunmen, shoplifters, drug dealers, pickpockets and hooligans. These extraordinary images resurfaced in the 1980s, long after the original paperwork had been lost and the crooks, the cops and all who remembered them had passed on. Based on years of research into police files, court records, newspapers and other sources, Crooks Like Us offers a glimpse into the difficult lives of these fugitive souls what they did, who they hurt, who hurt them, where they came from and, sometimes, where they ended up. Illustrated with rich, emotionally charged police Special Photographs from the Justice & Police Museum, Sydney, Crooks Like Us opens a secret door onto Sydneys hidden histories.

Author description

Peter Doyle is the author of City of Shadows: Sydney Police Photographs 1912-1948 (with Caleb Williams) and the novel The Devil's Jump.