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'Corruption, prostitution, gambling, bent coppers, crooked politicians, honest crims. It's all in a day's work.
'Set against the back drop of the Askin government with events revolving around notorious crime identities Dick Reilly, Lennie McPherson and Johnny Warren, Crooked reveals the dark underbelly of Sydney during the late 1960s.
'Gus Finlay is a fresh-faced young detective who is transferred to the Criminal Investigation Branch after his partner has been exposed as running crooked.
'Sydney is a savage place. A series of violent killings escalate with a spectacular execution-style murder. When a black book with names of prominent politicians and members of the police force is discovered among the dead man's things, the case is blown wide open, and someone will have to pay...' (Publisher's blurb)
Notes
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Dedication: For my father.
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Epigraph: 'Frankly, I do not think the right people were arrested.' Hansard, 1968.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Braille.
Works about this Work
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Dodgy Days When Sydney Really Was Sin City
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 11-12 October 2008; (p. 32-33)
— Review of Crooked 2008 single work novel ; Heavy Allies 2008 single work novel -
Treading on Toes
2008
single work
column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 11 October 2008; (p. 16) -
Sydney's Criminal Underbelly Finds Gripping Exposure in Space and Time
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 27 September 2008; (p. 18-19)
— Review of Crooked 2008 single work novel ; Heavy Allies 2008 single work novel -
Sins and the City
2008
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 21 September 2008; (p. 12) -
Cover Notes
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 21 September 2008; (p. 33)
— Review of Crooked 2008 single work novel
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[Review] Crooked
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , July vol. 88 no. 1 2008; (p. 40)
— Review of Crooked 2008 single work novel -
Cover Notes
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 21 September 2008; (p. 33)
— Review of Crooked 2008 single work novel -
Sydney's Criminal Underbelly Finds Gripping Exposure in Space and Time
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 27 September 2008; (p. 18-19)
— Review of Crooked 2008 single work novel ; Heavy Allies 2008 single work novel -
Dodgy Days When Sydney Really Was Sin City
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 11-12 October 2008; (p. 32-33)
— Review of Crooked 2008 single work novel ; Heavy Allies 2008 single work novel -
Sins and the City
2008
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 21 September 2008; (p. 12) -
Treading on Toes
2008
single work
column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 11 October 2008; (p. 16)
Awards
- 2009 shortlisted Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing — Best First Novel
- Sydney, New South Wales,
- 1960s