- 304 pages
- English
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About this book
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...
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Table of contents
- Dedication
- Contents
- Prologue: Alias Mary Eugene, 6 August 1939
- 1. Waverley runaway: Young Dulcie Markham
- 2. ‘I went out for a good time’: Prostitution, 1920s and 1930s
- 3. Little Chicago’s ‘hold-up man’: Organised crime in Sydney
- 4. ‘Man stabbed in heart’: Dulcie loses her first lover
- 5. ‘Police seek mystery blonde’: Two more lovers gone
- 6. ‘Good-bye, sweetheart!’ Dulcie’s war
- 7. Shot in the face: Another lover dead
- 8. Across the tracks at the ‘Rue de la Roe’: A Perth sojourn
- 9. Shots in St Kilda: Revenge cuts both ways
- 10. ‘I’ve had enough’: A slow change of heart
- 11. A ‘model housewife’: A quiet life and a dramatic end
- Epilogue: ‘What does it matter so long as you get the money?’
- Author’s note: Writing Dulcie’s story
- Dulcie Markham’s timeline
- Acknowledgements
- Bibliography
- Notes
- Photo Section
- About the Author
- Copyright