Three Crooked Kings [electronic resource]
Matthew Condon2013
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Journalist and novelist Matthew Condon has crafted the definitive account-a
searing story of greed, crime, and corruption-of an era that changed Queensland
society; an impact that reverberates across the country to this day. In 1949, a
young Terence Murray Lewis graduated from the police academy, ready to start his
career in law enforcement. Over the next four decades, he rose to the pinnacle
of power as the knighted Commissioner of Police in Queensland before his
spectacular downfall and imprisonment after the Fitzgerald Inquiry in the late
1980s. This book follows Lewis' journey through the ranks, as he becomes part of
the so-called Rat Pack with detectives Glenn Hallahan and Tony Murphy under the
guiding influence of Commissioner Frank Bischof. The alleged suicide of
prostitute and brothel madam Shirley Brifman in the early 1970s provides the
turning point for a culture that reigned unchecked for several decades. It was
part of a grand narrative teeming with murder, pay-...
Main title:
Three Crooked Kings [electronic resource] / Matthew Condon
Author:
Matthew Condon, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : University of Queensland Press, 2013
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (352 pages,)
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9780702249112
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
437620
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