Although sometimes referred to as a novel, The Doings of Dave is a collection of 30 stories set largely in the sporting underworld
The underworld of Australian clties Is no longer an unexplored field, and the spieler and the battler are no longer unknown to fame, for Con Drew has given them a place in literature. In Jinker he showed the reading public that he knew of haunts of the underworld to which they had never penetrated, and now in a new book, The Doings of Dave, he enables us to become better acquainted with the spielers of the race-course and the battlers of back streets...'
The underworld of Australian clties Is no longer an unexplored field, and the spieler and the battler are no longer unknown to fame, for Con Drew has given them a place in literature. In Jinker he showed the reading public that he knew of haunts of the underworld to which they had never penetrated, and now in a new book, The Doings of Dave, he enables us to become better acquainted with the spielers of the race-course and the battlers of back streets...'
