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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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Books : Biography
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 2012 single work biography
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Books : Biography
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 2012 single work biography
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