I've been reading a book called Razor by Larry Writer and it's just an incredible read. I'm stoked that Channel 9 in Australia is going to be making a mini series out of it called Underbelly: Razor. It has a Xena element to it with the incredible Danielle Cormack in the role of Kate Leigh - one of the vice queens!

The acclaimed true crime account of Sydney's infamous criminal razor gangs. In the 1920s and '30s in inner Sydney, some of the most terrifying criminals in Australia's history waged war with razor and gun. As gang fought gang, the streets echoed with the sound of violence and ran with blood. Razor chronicles in compelling detail the nether word ruled by fabled vice queens Tilly Devine and Kate Leigh, and financed by the spoils of illegal drugs and alcohol, prostitution, gambling and extortion. Gangsters such as Guido Calletti, Big Jim Devine and Frank "the Little Gunman" Green killed, robbed and slashed with impunity. Facing them were the police – some corrupt, some honest, and a few as tough and feared as the razor gangs they fought.Razor is the fascinating true story of the people who lived and died in this world of violence and vice. Razor brings a city's dark past back to life, and ensures that you will never look at inner Sydney in quite the same way again.

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-- Reported by MaryD and Barbara Davies