Suburban Noir: Crime and mishap in the 1950s and 1960s Sydney

Nothing in the post-war decades reveals the underbelly of Australian life the way police records do. Small time heists. Failed robberies. Runs of bad luck. Payback. Love gone wrong. Drink, drugs, and late-night assignations. Cops doing their job well. And badly. Plausible lies, unlikely truths. Murder and misadventure. In Suburban Noir Peter Doyle— author of City of Shadows and Crooks Like Us— explores the everyday crime and catastrophe that went on in the fibro and brick veneers, the backy...