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

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

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Publisher's Synopsis

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, Brisbane and Perth, 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 ...

PRAISE

'For readers new to the history of this appalling yet enthralling era of organised crime, the book will simply astonish' Catie Gilchrist, author of Murder, Misadventure and Miserable Ends, Tales from a Colonial Coroner's Court

Book information

ISBN: 9780733339660
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint: ABC Books
Pub date:
DEWEY: B
Language: English
Number of pages: 330
Weight: 458g
Height: 154mm
Width: 233mm
Spine width: 27mm