Three crooked kings / Matthew Condon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Condon, Matthew.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Police--Australia--Queensland--Biography.

Police.

Police corruption--Australia--Queensland.

Police corruption.

Misconduct in office--Australia--Queensland.

Misconduct in office.

Political corruption--Australia--Queensland.

Political corruption.

Queensland--Politics and government--1976-1990.

Queensland.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (351 p.)

Other Title:

3 crooked kings

Place of Publication:

St Lucia, Qld. : UQP, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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-offs, political machinations, drug heists, assisted suicides, police in-fighting, and a complicated system of corruption that ultimately collapsed under its own weight. Based on unprecedented interviews with Terry Lewis and access to his personal papers, this book is the missing piece in the puzzle of the story of Queensland's endemic generational corruption.

Contents:

""Author biography""; ""Title page""; ""Copyright ""; ""Dedication""; ""Prologue""; ""1940s�1950s""; ""The Probationary""; ""Constable Lewis on the Beat""; ""Hallahan Comes Home""; ""Sub-inspector Bischof Investigates a Gross Fraud""; ""The Clever Mr Whitrod""; ""Debutante""; ""The Ascent of Detective Lewis""; ""Miss Shanks""; ""Ladies Lounging in Cane Grass Chairs""; ""The South Brisbane Scrapper""; ""Her Majesty Comes to Visit""; ""Family Men""; ""Watching Amelia Street""; ""Ada and Gunner""; ""The Time of the Mason""; ""The Curious Corruption Incubator of Mount Isa""

""Shirley�s New Life""""Rats, Bodgies, and Drinks at the National""; ""A Night to Die""; ""Miss Hamilton Has Had Enough""; ""Another Good Day at the Races""; ""The Little Boy Lost from Paradise Street""; ""1960s""; ""Dear Sir, I Have Been Directed to Inform You""; ""The Dog with Two Tails""; ""The Passion Pit""; ""Attack Dog""; ""One Saturday Night in Hendra""; ""Terry Moves House""; ""The End of the Affair""; ""Conferenceville""; ""Courtesy of the Author""; ""A Secret Meeting with the Premier""; ""Silent, Liar""; ""The Bum Smackers""; ""A Crowded Hour""; ""Digging for Dirt""

""First Steps to the Big Chair""""The Inquiry""; ""Empire Building""; ""Peacekeeper""; ""Life up on the Drive""; ""To the Satisfaction of Both Parties""; ""Silent Gets Rowdy in the Emerald City""; ""Bombs and Brothels""; ""The Stockbroker with the Gold Limousine""; ""The Traveller and the Travel Agent""; ""Shirley, Businesswoman""; ""The Haunted Mind of Frank Bischof""; ""Enter the Country Bumpkin""; ""The Wise Bald Man""; ""Shirley, the Wife�s Best Friend""; ""1970s""; ""Before the Storm""; ""A Quiet Word in the Squad Car""; ""The Happy Gardener""; ""A Confidential Meeting""

""Shirley Loses Some Friends""""A Fiery Luncheon""; ""Shirley Goes Live""; ""Not So in Hiding""; ""Shirley Flees North""; ""The Eyes of a Killer""; ""A State of Emergency""; ""The Most Hated Man in the Force""; ""The Magician Comes Calling Again""; ""This Town�s Getting Too Hot""; ""A Nice Man Dies in the Suburbs""; ""Under the Microscope""; ""Two Bulls Lock Horns""; ""Letters from the Past""; ""Another Overdose, Another Suspicious Death""; ""The Caravan and the Bug""; ""Now for Murphy""; ""A Sudden Death in Bonney Avenue""; ""Fracture""; ""A Round of Beers at the Belfast""

""Mister Milligan, I Presume""""White-anting Lewis""; ""A Big Scalp""; ""Warnings Ignored""; ""Whiskey""; ""Lewis on the Carousel""; ""The Missing Defendant""; ""In the Shadows of the Blackall Range""; ""The Whiskey�s Other Victims""; ""Billy Sets His Own Fire""; ""The Elderly, Bewildered Orphan""; ""The Relieving Inspector""; ""A Meeting at the Majestic""; ""Get Herbert""; ""The Southport Betting Fiasco""; ""O�Connell and Fothergill""; ""Out West""; ""Surprise Visitors""; ""One Night in Cooktown""; ""Waiting for a Plane in Cunnamulla""; ""Author�s Note and Acknowledgments""; ""Index""

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0-7022-4911-4

0-7022-4910-6