Touch the Black: the Life and Death of Squizzy Taylor / Chris Grierson
Standover man. Armed robber. Sly-grog and drug dealer. Murderer.
Touch the Black brings the secret world of Squizzy Taylor to life ~ 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 the 1920s Melbourne and the events that marked the rise and fall of one of Australia's most notorious gangsters.
Standover man. Armed robber. Sly-grog and drug dealer. Murderer.
Touch the Black brings the secret world of Squizzy Taylor to life ~ 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 the 1920s Melbourne and the events that marked the rise and fall of one of Australia's most notorious gangsters.
Standover man. Armed robber. Sly-grog and drug dealer. Murderer.
Touch the Black brings the secret world of Squizzy Taylor to life ~ 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 the 1920s Melbourne and the events that marked the rise and fall of one of Australia's most notorious gangsters.
“While you live, you live in clover. For when you’re dead you’re dead all over.”
