The Kings Cross Racket

Sydney: Scripts, 1967.
First Edition.

18cm x 11cm. 130 pages. Pictorial wrappers.

Australian pulp fiction, one of a number of playing into the public’s simultaneous fascination and fear of Sydney’s red light district. “The Unholy Cross. A vicious attack on a young surfie by a gang of hoodlums leads to an appalling sequence of events which are all probable in Kings Cross today. A vice king and his dolls, prostitutes and drug pedlars ensnare Billy Grant and drive him towards a terrible ending.”

Light creasing to joints and wrappers lower panel. Minor tanning. Good Condition.

AU$150