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.
- ISBN13 9780522866759
- Publish Date 1 July 2014 (first published 1 July 2013)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 30 March 2021
- Publish Country AU
- Imprint Melbourne University Press
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 224
- Language English