Sydney noir / edited by John Dale.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dale, John, 1953- editor.

Series:

Akashic noir series

The Akashic noir series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Detective and mystery stories, Australian.

Sydney (N.S.W.)--Fiction.

Sydney (N.S.W.).

New South Wales--Sydney.

Genre:

Noir fiction.

Short stories.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

244 pages : map ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Brooklyn, New York : Akashic Books, [2019]

Summary:

Nothing lasts in Sydney, especially good fortune: lives are upturned, shops are sold, roads dug up, trees and houses knocked down, premiers discarded, and entire communities relocated in the name of that economic mantra--growth and progress. Just when you think the traffic can't get any worse and the screech of the 747s descending over your roof can't get any louder, along comes a wild electrical storm that batters the buildings and shakes the power lines and washes the garbage off the streets and you stand, sheltered under your broken brolly in the center of Sydney, admiring this big beautiful city. What never changes, though, is the hustle on the street. My father was a detective in the vice squad shortly after the Second World War, and he told stories of busting SP bookies in Paddington and Surry Hills, collaring cockatoos stationed in the laneways of South Sydney, and arresting sly-groggers. Policing back then was hands-on for the poor and hands-off for the rich. Crime and Sydney have always been inseparable: a deep vein of corruption runs beneath the surface of even its most respectable suburbs.

Contents:

Introduction; PART I: Family Matters; The Passenger / Kirsten Tranter

The Birthday present / Mandy Sayer

Good boy, bad girl / John Dale

In the dunes / Eleanor Limprecht

In the court of the lion king / Mark Dapin

PART II: Sex And The City

The Transmutation of sex / Leigh Redhead

The Patternmaker / Julie Koh

Toxic nostalgia / Peter Polites

The Razor / Robert Drewe PART III: Criminal Justice

Rip-Off / Tom Gilling

Slow burn / Gabrielle Lord

Black cul-de-sac / Philip McLaren

Chinaman's beach / P.M. Newton

Good bloke / Peter Doyle. About the Contributors; Acknowledgments

ISBN:

9781617755811

1617755818

OCLC:

1030906975

Publisher Number:

99980259434