"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

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In the early part of the 20th century police routinely went to places that respectable people did their best to avoid, the dark places where bad things happened. They were just doing their job - asking questions, taking photographs, writing reports. But now, nearly a century later, the fruit of that footwork offers us the most extraordinary and intimate record of the more trouble sides of everyday life in early 20th century Australia.

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With pulsating red lips and a curvaceous figure, the femme fatale is coolly criminal and dangerous to know. Sexy and seductive, she manipulates and murders on the pages of pulp fiction and on film noir screens. Meanwhile, the real female criminal, serves hard time. Photographs of some of Australia’s most notorious female criminals provide a stark contrast to the glamorised femmes fatales of popular culture.

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