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Gangland Queensland

Author: James Morton

Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing

Published: 2012-09-01

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 0522862160

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 Robbers

Author: James Morton

Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing

Published: 2016-08-29

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 0522870260

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Robbers have always seen themselves as the cream of the underworld; the top of the criminal aristocracy in and out prison. This is the story of the men and women who go to great lengths to organise a heist which, if all goes well, should keep them in luxury for many years, if not for life. And if it fails then often it is another sort of life. From the Tunnel digging heist of the Bank of Australia robbery in 1828 to the Cash in Transit robberies of today, Morton and Lobez cover the stories of the robbers and robberies of the past 200 years; through the bushrangers; Squizzy Taylor and his crew; the train robbers of the 1930s; men such as Jockey Smith, 'Mad Dog' Cox, Chuckie Bennett and the ill-fated Victorian Bookie Robbery, Melbourne's Joey Turner, as well as the less well known 'Angel of Death', 'The Country Bandit', 'The Pushbike Bandit', 'The Gentleman Bandit' and a hundred more; the lives—their own and others—they ruined; those who went to the gallows and the very few who redeemed themselves.

The Petticoat Parade

Author: Leigh Straw

Publisher: Fremantle Press

Published: 2021-09-01

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1760990566

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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 Germans. She was a prisoner of war and one story has her in a concentration camp. She survived, returned to Perth in 1947, and took up business again in Roe Street, having made a fortune from the rent collected from her brothels while she was a prisoner of war, up until her death in 1953.

Bent Uncensored

Author: James Morton

Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing

Published: 2016-10-31

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 0522870864

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The sensational murder convictions this winter of former NSW detectives Roger Rogerson and Glen McNamara for the killing of drug dealer Jamie Gao has meant that previously suppressed material in Bent can at last be read. James Morton and Susanna Lobez have illustrated, in several Gangland books, that Australia almost certainly has out-ganged other countries. Now their spotlight is turned on corruption within the police services and identifying which state wins the bent cop handicap. Morton and Lobez examine the problems that started with the First Fleet and spread through to the present day, looking at the trouble caused by greed, power, drink, sex, money and, most recently, drugs. They compare the experience in Australia with corruption in America, England and Hong Kong, concentrating in particular on organised corruption at the highest levels, including judges, lawyers and politicians, through to the petty criminals who work our streets. Which state has the shadiest cops? The answer will surprise you.

Dangerous to Know Updated Edition

Author: James Morton

Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing

Published: 2016-02-01

Total Pages: 924

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.

Gangland North South & West

Author: James Morton

Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing

Published: 2014-07-01

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 0522864236

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The last volume in the best-selling series, Gangland North, South & West looks at crime in South and Western Australia, Northern Territory and Tasmania. In addition to contract killing, prostitution, robbery, illegal gambling and the stand-over game, in these regions there has been a healthy living to be made from gold, diamond and pearl thefts. Eastern criminals travel west, south and north to meet and do business, or battle with home-grown stalwarts such as Shiner Ryan, said to be able to open a lock with his hand behind his back; Spadger Bray, suspected of three murders and himself shot dead a decade later; blackmailing brothel madam Shirley Finn, executed on a Perth golf course, and many, many others. Gangland North, South & West is everything that makes life worth living in the underworld.

Gangland Oz

Author: James Morton

Publisher:

Published: 2018-02-08

Total Pages: 724

ISBN-13: 9780369310170

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Devious, daring, cunning ... but ultimately too greedy, too cocky. Gangland Oz: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow exposes the country's pantheon of crooks and criminals since the first convicts stepped ashore and got to work. Ten years on from the original bestselling Gangland Australia, top true-crime writer James Morton and barrister and broadcaster Susanna Lobez conspire again to track the rise and fall of Australia's talented contract killers, brothel keepers, robbers, bikers, standover merchants, conmen and drug dealers. They examine the role of police, politicians and lawyers who have aided and busted criminal empires and look at the recent rise of youth gangs, cyber crime, identity theft and sexploitation scams. Vivid and explosive, Gangland Oz: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow is compulsive reading.