CROOKS LIKE US
By Peter DOYLE
Peter Doyle's new book offers a glimpse into the lives of Sydney's con artists, magsmen, drug dealers and house breakers...
Peter Doyle is the author of City of Shadows: Sydney Police photographs, 1912-1948 (with Caleb Williams), which like this book, draws on the forensic photography archive at the Justice & Police Museum, Sydney. Peter lectures in Media at Macquarie University, and is the author of the novel, The Devil’s Jump.”
"Crooks Like Us extraordinarily beautiful and utterly absorbing, is much more than a glimpse of the underside of Sydney in the early 20th Century. It is a chance to gaze at length upon a selection of human beings, some of them monstrous but most just flawed like us … In their richness, the pictures and the text, set against the banality of the circumstances, declare that everyone is interesting and even beautiful, and that every story is worth telling." - Luc Sante, author of Evidence and Kill All Your Darlings