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  • The Worst Woman in Sydney

    The Life and Crimes of Kate Leigh

    by Leigh Straw ...
    Uncover the true story of Kate Leigh, Sydney's most notorious female criminal, in this gripping biography.From a wayward girl in Dubbo to the queen of the Sydney underworld, Kate Leigh defied expectations and built a criminal empire in a male-dominated world. Explore her life, her crimes, and her complex relationships, set against the backdrop of early 20th-century Australia.Discover the secrets ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Petticoat Parade

    Madam Monnier and the Roe Street Brothels

    by 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 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Ballroom Murder

    by 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 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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

    by 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 ... Read more

    Was $8.99 USD Now $6.99 USD

  • The Kennedys at Cape Cod, 1944

    The Summer That Changed Everything

    by 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 ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Lillian Armfield

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

    by 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 ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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    The Kennedys at Cape Cod, 1944

    The Summer That Changed Everything

    by Leigh Straw ...
    Narrated by Patricia Rodriguez ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 12 min

    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 ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

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  • The Patriarch

    The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy

    by David Nasaw ...
    2013 Pulitzer Prize FinalistNew York Times Ten Best Books of 2012“Riveting…The Patriarch is a book hard to put down.” – Christopher Buckley, The New York Times Book ReviewIn this magisterial new work The Patriarch, the celebrated historian David Nasaw tells the full story of Joseph P. Kennedy, the founder of the twentieth century's most famous political dynasty. Nasaw—the only biographer granted ... Read more

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  • The Peter Lawford Story

    Life with the Kennedys, Monroe, and the Rat Pack

    As the brother in law to JFK and a member of the Rat Pack, Peter Lawford was one of America's most acclaimed movie stars.Lawford led an extraordinary life. His story, as told by the woman who knew him best, is the always candid, sometimes shocking unveiling of the most intriguing show business personalities and significant political events of our time.Now fully updated and revised for 2014 this is ... Read more

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