Comparable to only Al Capone, Ned Kelly, the Kray Twins and Bonnie and Clyde, Squizzy Taylor was perhaps the most prolific and iconic criminal in the history of Western civilisation but has until now gone unrecorded. For over 100 years since his death, almost no author has had the tenacity to take on the enormous task of compiling a biography of the man who existed behind the legend that became Squizzy Taylor. But now, Australia's most prolific true crime biographer, Roy Maloy, presents the story of Squizzy Taylor in one complete work. Spanning over 150 years of history, from his father's upbringing in Sandhurst, through his adolescence as a street pickpocket, violent thug and standover man, passing by the Fitzroy Vendetta, and his year long escape from the law with Ida Pender to the pistol fight that took his life, this is truly an epic and spectacular work that finally preserves and presents the father of modern Australian crime - Squizzy Taylor.