Cover; Author biography; Title page; Imprint; Dedication; Epigraph; Prologue; Did You Ever Take a Penny?; A Tangled Matrimonial Skein; An Old Copper Remembers; Charles Fenwick Shotton Corner States ; The Dodger ; The Shadow of Barkala Street ; A Matter of Lingering Doubts ; The Honourable Speaker ; The Night Porter ; What the Clerk Heard ; Marge; Talk to Old Abe ; Fallout; The Wild Life of Dorothy Edith Knight ; The Confidant ; Last Drinks at the Playboy ; Inside the Whiskey ; The Monster of Eyre Street ; Doc; Who Hath Smelt Wood Smoke at Twilight? ; A Remarkable Confession ; Box 23
Photos with Clarrie The Marauder ; Out of the Dark ; The Envelope ; Good Friends ; Phantoms ; Acknowledgements ; Index
Summary
"I recall meeting Lewis on a number of occasions in company with Tony Murphy. I recall conversation getting around to payments of money with Murphy and Lewis. Lewis thanked me on several occasions and said 'Little fish are sweet."--Jack 'The Bagman' Herbert in evidence to the Fitzgerald Inquiry 1988. Little Fish Are Sweet is Matthew Condon's extraordinary personal account of writing the Three Crooked Kings trilogy. When Condon first interviewed disgraced former police commissioner Terry Lewis, he had no idea that it would be the start of a turbulent six-year journey. As hundreds of people came forward to share their powerful and sometimes shocking stories, decades of crime and corruption were revealed in a new light. Risking threats and intimidation, Condon tirelessly pursued his investigations into a web of cold murder cases and past conspiracies. What he discovered is much more sinister than anyone could have imagined
