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Issue Details: First known date: 2012... 2012 Touch the Black : The Life and Death of Squizzy Taylor
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'"While you live, live in clover. For when you're dead, you're dead all over." — Squizzy Taylor

'Standover man. Armed robber. Sly-grog and drug dealer. Murderer.

'Touch the Black brings the secret world of Squizzy Taylor to life — from from the back streets of Richmond to the Fitzroy Vendetta and the deadly shoot-out with Snowy Cutmore.

'In razor-sharp prose touched with poetry Chris Grierson recreates 1920s Melbourne and the events that marked the rise and fall of one of Australia's most notorious gangsters.' (From the publisher's website.)

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    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Hunter Publishers , 2012 .
      person or book cover
      Image courtesy of Hunter Publishers.
      Extent: 169p.
      Description: illus.
      ISBN: 9780980863963 (pbk.)

Works about this Work

Books : Biography Owen Richardson , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 8 December 2012; (p. 32)

— Review of Touch the Black : The Life and Death of Squizzy Taylor Chris Grierson , 2012 single work biography
Books : Biography Owen Richardson , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 8 December 2012; (p. 32)

— Review of Touch the Black : The Life and Death of Squizzy Taylor Chris Grierson , 2012 single work biography
Last amended 10 Dec 2012 15:10:25
Subjects:
  • Melbourne, Victoria,
  • 1920s
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