y separately published work icon A Crooked Sixpence single work   novel   satire  
Issue Details: First known date: 1960... 1960 A Crooked Sixpence
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A young Australian journalist in London's Fleet Street.

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  • Epigraph: There was a crooked man/ And he walked a crooked mile,/ He found a crooked sixpence,/ It wasn't enough.

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This edition pulped several days after publication due to defamation litigation.
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Works about this Work

Life on the Crooked Mile Bill Harcourt , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: Quadrant , January-February vol. 53 no. 1-2 2009; (p. 22-25)
The World for a Stage Damien Murphy , 2008 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 13-14 December 2008; (p. 24)
The World for a Stage Damien Murphy , 2008 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 13-14 December 2008; (p. 24)
Life on the Crooked Mile Bill Harcourt , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: Quadrant , January-February vol. 53 no. 1-2 2009; (p. 22-25)
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