Gangland Crimes That Shocked Australia
Gangland Crimes That Shocked Australia

Author: Ian Ferguson

Publisher: Brolga Publishing

Published: 2019-05-01

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1925367339

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Featuring the latest information about the murder of Des Moran, including Judy Moran's involvement, these are the gritty stories of Australia's crime world. A hive of secret activity the Australian gangland world is fraught with double-crossings, murders, theft, violence and fraud. Living by their own set of rules and regulations, which often involve crooked members of government and the police force, this is your chance to gain a real insight into how the minds and groups of these gangs really work.

Gangland Robbers
Gangland Robbers

Author: James Morton

Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing

Published: 2016-08-29

Total Pages: 167

ISBN-13: 0522870260

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Robbers have always seen themselves as the cream of the underworld, at the top of the criminal aristocracy, both in and out of prison. Gangland Robbers follows the stories of the men and women who go to great lengths to organise heists which, if all goes well, will keep them in luxury for many years, if not for life. If their plans fail, then often it is another sort of life. Bestselling Gangland authors Morton and Lobez cover the best stories of the past 200 years: from the tunnel-digging burglary of the Bank of Australia in 1828 through to the hold-ups of the bushrangers; Squizzy Taylor and his crew; the train robbers of the 1930s; Jockey Smith; ‘Mad Dog’ Cox; the ill-fated Victorian Bookie Robbery, as well as the less well-known ‘Angel of Death’, ‘The Pushbike Bandit’ and ‘The Gentleman Bandit’. Gangland Robbers explores the lives—their own and others—that these bandits ruined, those who went to the gallows, and the very few who redeemed themselves.

Gangland Sydney
Gangland Sydney

Author: James Morton

Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 0522858708

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Gangland Sydney details the exploits of an unforgettable cast of villains, crooks and mobsters who have defined the criminal and gangland scene in Sydney from the mid-1800s to the present day.In this compelling book, Britain's top true crime author James Morton and barrister and legal broadcaster Susanna Lobez track the rise and fall of Sydney's standover men, contract killers, robbers, brothel keepers, biker gangs and drug dealers, and also examine the role of police, politicians and lawyers who have helped and hindered the growth of these criminal empires.Vivid and explosive, Gangland Sydney is compulsive reading.

Gangland Queensland
Gangland Queensland

Author: James Morton

Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing

Published: 2012-09-01

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 0522862160

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Gangland Queensland heads north of the border to tell exploits of a colourful pantheon of mobsters, shysters, club owners, drug dealers, Black Hand gangs, crooked police and bikers over the last century. Beginning with the drug and sex trades of the early 1900s, and including the infamous fire at the Whiskey Au Go Go club, the explosive revelations of The Fitzgerald Inquiry and organised crime syndicates like Japan’s Yakuza, authors James Morton and Susanna Lobez examine the scale of Queensland’s crime scene in forensic and fascinating detail.

Gangland Melbourne
Gangland Melbourne

Author: James Morton

Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing

Published: 2011-07-01

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0522860389

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Gangland Melbourne details the exploits of an unforgettable cast of villains, crooks and mobsters who have defined the criminal and gangland scene in Melbourne from the late 1800s to the present day. In this compelling book, Britain’s top true crime author James Morton and barrister and legal broadcaster Susanna Lobez track the rise and fall of Melbourne’s standover men, contract killers, robbers, brothel keepers and drug dealers, and also examine the role the police have played in both helping and hindering the growth of these criminal empires. In particular, Melbourne’s criminal past is explored through its famous villainous families, the Painters’ and Dockers’ union war of the 1970s and the more recent underworld gangland killings.Vivid and explosive, Gangland Melbourne is compulsive reading.

Dangerous to Know Updated Edition
Dangerous to Know Updated Edition

Author: James Morton

Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing

Published: 2016-02-01

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 0522869696

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Dangerous to Know documents murders known and not so well known, conmen and their victims, street gangs of the early twentieth century, crime lords of the 1920s, dock wars of the 1970s, bikers, sex offenders, and the drug gangs of today as well as the wrongly accused and wrongly convicted. They're all here, as well as some of the police, lawyers and judges who have tried to deal with them.

Crimes that Shocked Australia
Crimes that Shocked Australia

Author: Ian Ferguson

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781921221569

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From the best-selling author of Murders that Shocked Australia comes another true crime anthology of shocking proportions. With enough gruesome tales to send shivers up your spine, join Ian Ferguson as he documents the most memorable moments in Australia's crime history. Gangland muders, kidnappings, hold-ups, mutilation and more, these crimes that occurred in our own backyard are hard to believe and not easy to forget. Covering a wide range of crimes and periods, from the bush ranger gangs to current day fugitives it is an eye-opening experience to relive these shocking crimes of Australia.

Kings Of Stings
Kings Of Stings

Author: James Morton

Publisher: Victory Books

Published: 2011-03-01

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 0522860192

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Do you want to...Help distribute money to the poor and be given a fee to do so? Share in Al Qaeda's hidden gold? Help a young girl orphaned in the tsunami? In their highly entertaining and often shocking new book James Morton and Susanna Lobez follow up their bestselling Gangland Australia by delving into the world of Australian con artists such as Mario Condello, Helen Demidenko, Christopher Skase, Brenton Jarrett, Peter Foster, Lola Montez and Fairlie Arrow. Here are highly talented men and women and their tricks: changing paper into banknotes, selling other people's property, faking deaths, and forging paintings; promising miracle cures and impersonating aristocracy, preachers, military gents, lawyers and doctors. In fact, whatever it takes to separate the unwary from their money. Read about the scams and think twice about that offer that seems almost too good to be true.

Walsh Street
Walsh Street

Author: Tom Noble

Publisher: Victory Books

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 0522858155

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A powerful Melbourne crime family. A teenage protected witness. The killing of two policemen. Terror. Violence. Loyalty. On a cool spring morning two policemen were lured into a leafy street in Melbourne, Australia and gunned down. Police investigators pulled out all stops to find the killers, for an astounding two and a half years. Then the men they found were acquitted. The police's case against the two brothers and two friends of their family had fallen apart. The accused were free to leave the court. In Walsh Street, Australia's most famous criminal family comes to life: Kath Pettingill, the fierce matriarch; her eldest son, Dennis, drug dealer and killer; her daughter, Vicki, a protected police witness; her youngest, Trevor, and her other son Victor Peirce, two of the four men charged with the murders; and her grandson Jason-harassed by Kath's dogs and the family's enemies alike. Includes a new foreword from the author with updates on all the major players.

Gangland Sydney
Gangland Sydney

Author: James Morton

Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing

Published: 2011-07-01

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 0522860397

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Gangland Sydney details the exploits of an unforgettable cast of villains, crooks and mobsters who have defined the criminal and gangland scene in Sydney from the mid-1800s to the present day.In this compelling book, Britain’s top true crime author James Morton and barrister and legal broadcaster Susanna Lobez track the rise and fall of Sydney’s standover men, contract killers, robbers, brothel keepers, biker gangs and drug dealers, and also examine the role of police, politicians and lawyers who have helped and hindered the growth of these criminal empires.Vivid and explosive, Gangland Sydney is compulsive reading.