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The Calabrian is a novel by best-selling author Matthew Benns, Editor-at-Large of The Daily Telegraph, that tells the story of two Italian immigrants who build rival criminal organisations in Australia. It builds to an astonishing climax. It’s available online, one chapter at a time. Starting now. Good people like it.… Keep Reading
Former officer Bob Deards recounts his experiences of the good, the bad and the ugly among the constabulary of New South Wales. See Sydney Crime Museum under ‘Organised Crime’ – where else – for a rare first-hand record of what life on the job was really like. Yes, there is… Keep Reading
BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival has just announced the short list for this year’s Danger Prize, for the best book, podcast, TV series or film about crime and Sydney, published in the past financial year. The prize will be awarded by last year’s winner, John Ibrahim, at the Sydney Crime… Keep Reading
A bad city needs a bad festival. BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival has announced its program for this year’s festival, 6 to 8 September. The festival is growing – bigger and at a new venue, the State Library of NSW. This year’s star international guest is Val McDermid, who will… Keep Reading
"an important work, rich in detail and revelation" Chris Masters Keep Reading
'How much filth there is in the Church,' said Cardinal Ratzinger, who also discovered the extent of the "closet" through a secret report ... that was one of the major reasons for his resignation.' Keep Reading
Sydney’s unpatriotic war … a new book by Duffy and Hordern in their unique blend of true crime and history. Turns out not everyone in Sydney was behind the war effort, the city was abuzz with loose women and fast men – the deserters and black marketeers – sly grog,… Keep Reading
Richard Beasley is just about the best crime novelist writing about Sydney at the moment, and among the best in the country, so long as you include courtroom dramas as crime books. His Peter Tanner series is world class, with two out so far – Cyanide Games and The Burden… Keep Reading
Sandwiched between a long-standing Japanese restaurant and a trendy barbershop in now very gentrified Surry Hills is a newly-renovated terrace with a colourful past. For nearly 40 years after the First World War, 212 Devonshire Street was “Mum’s Place” – the headquarters and command centre of one of Sydney’s biggest… Keep Reading
It started with a middy of VB. Or 30. When he wasn’t drug-dealing, prostitute-running, raping, robbing or murdering, the notorious Arthur “Neddy” Smith enjoyed crawling Sydney’s seediest pubs from Chinatown’s Covent Garden Hotel to Alexandria’s Star Hotel, from where he and sidekick Graham “Abo” Henry ran their “green-lit” heroin operation,… Keep Reading
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