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'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 ...'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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Other Formats
- Dyslexic edition.
- Large print.
Awards
- 2020 longlisted Davitt Award — Best True Crime Book
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- Sydney, New South Wales,
- 1920s
- 1930s
- 1940s
- 1950s
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