The Dark Prince of Melbourne - Ian W. Shaw

Category: Autobiography & Biographies, Documentary, True Crime
Language: English
Keywords: Australian Gangster Melbourne Squizzy Taylor

Written by Ian W. Shaw
Read by Humphrey Bower
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

The Dark Prince of Melbourne: The Short, Flashy Life of Squizzy Taylor and the Birth of Organised Crime in Australia
By: Ian W. Shaw
Narrated by: Humphrey Bower
Release date
25-11-2025
Language
English
Format
Unabridged Audiobook
Length
10 hrs and 37 mins
Publisher
ABC Audio
Categories
Biographies & Memoirs

Joseph Leslie ‘Squizzy’ Taylor was many things to many people: a kind and caring husband, father and stepfather, a reliable son and brother, a generous and considerate neighbour and patron. He was also a criminal willing to consider any type of crime, provided it supported his lifestyle and his ego.

Squizzy graduated from teenage pickpocket to adult murderer, from organising smash-and-grab raids on jewellers to corrupting juries and suborning witnesses. And he was nothing if not newsworthy, whether appearing at the opening night of a new show at the top end of Bourke Street or climbing the steps en route to an appearance in the Supreme Court.

For more than a decade, Victoria’s best detectives were unable to pin any one of a dozen major crimes on him. Yet Squizzy ultimately met his match in street-punk-turned-gunman Snowy Cutmore in a darkened bedroom in a boarding house in Carlton.

Bad boys, bright lights and sorry ends – the story of a gangster.

©2025 Ian W. Shaw (P)2025 Bolinda Publishing