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  • The Worst Woman in Sydney

    The Life and Crimes of Kate Leigh

    de Leigh Straw ...
    Despite having more than 100 criminal convictions to her name, Kate Leigh is also remembered as a local hero, giving money to needy families and supporting her local community through the hard times of Depression and war. Here, novelist and historian Leigh Straw teases out the full story of how this wayward Reformatory girl from Dubbo made a fortune in eastern Sydney and defied the gender ... Leer más

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  • The Petticoat Parade

    Madam Monnier and the Roe Street Brothels

    de Leigh Straw ...
    Josie de Bray, aka Madam Monnier, aka Marie Louise Monnier, was a brothel madam who owned most of Roe Street, Perth from WWI up to the 1940s. A returned soldier tried to shoot her dead in her brothel in 1917 and her 'bungalow' was at the centre of underworld violence in the 1920s. She returned to France before WWII to visit family and was bombed repeatedly out of homes there and captured by the ... Leer más

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  • The Ballroom Murder

    de Leigh Straw ...
    In August 1925, Audrey Jacob shot dead her former fiancé, Cyril Gidley, in full view of hundreds of guests at a charity ball in Perth's Government House. When she was arrested, she still held the gun in her hand. It was a open and shut case of wilful murder—that is until Jacob assigned prosecutor Arthur Haynes to her defence. His ability to play the press and the jury for sympathy would lead to a ... Leer más

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  • Angel Of Death: Dulcie Markham, Australia's most beautiful bad woman

    de Leigh Straw ...
    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 ... Leer más

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  • The Kennedys at Cape Cod, 1944

    The Summer That Changed Everything

    de Leigh Straw ...
    The Kennedys considered their home in Hyannis Port, Cape Cod, 'The big white house', to be a haven from their busy lives. Yet in the summer of 1944, against the backdrop of WWII, the events that unfolded for them there changed the family forever.Beginning in the May of that year, The Kennedys at Cape Cod 1944 paints an intimate picture of those few months. As the younger Kennedy children and their ... Leer más

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  • Lillian Armfield

    How Australia's first female detective took on Tilly Devine and the Razor Gangs and changed the face of the force

    de Leigh Straw ...
    An engaging account of an extraordinary, trailblazing woman - Australia's first female detective - LILLIAN ARMFIELD is also the vivid and gripping story of the origins of Sydney's organised crime underbelly.'Special Constable' Lillian Armfield was policing Sydney's mean streets during some of the most dramatic years of crime in the city. By the late 1920s, eastern Sydney was the heartland of ... Leer más

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    The Kennedys at Cape Cod, 1944

    The Summer That Changed Everything

    de Leigh Straw ...
    Narrado por Patricia Rodriguez ...

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    Bloomsbury presents The Kennedys at Cape Cod, 1944: The Summer That Changed Everything by Leigh Straw, read by Patricia Rodriguez.The Kennedys considered their home in Hyannis Port, Cape Cod, ‘The big white house’, to be a haven from their busy lives. Yet in the summer of 1944, against the backdrop of WWII, the events that unfolded for them there changed the family forever.Beginning in the May of ... Leer más

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