The worst woman in Sydney : the life and crimes of Kate Leigh / Leigh Straw
- Bib ID:
- 7135397
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Straw, Leigh, author
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
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- National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory libraries
- Description:
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- Sydney NSW : NewSouth Publishing, 2016
- ©2016
- 1 online resource (264 pages) : portraits.
- ISBN:
- 9781742247700
- Series:
- EBSCOhost ebooks online
- Summary:
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The pretty girl of the underworld is dead. Depressed and reclusive in her Taylor Square apartment, Nellie Cameron laid her head inside an oven and turned on the gas. She was 41. Nellie left behind a private-school education on the wealthy North Shore and burst onto the Sydney crime scene in the late 1920s. She was a beautiful, extravagant and tough woman who won many a gangster's heart in what was a violent life. Eighteen months before her death, Nellie's lover shot her in the stomach. When doctors operated to extract the bullet, they found other healed bullet wounds nearby. These were the physical scars of a life lived in the eastern Sydney ganglands.
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- Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-2490 and index.
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2016
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