Flash Jim, Kel Richards

REVIEW ADDED: Wed, 30/06/2021 - 1:27pm by Karen

FLASH JIM is the story of James Hardy Vaux, writer of Australia's first dictionary and first true-crime memoir. It's kind of appealing to know the first dictionary came about as a result of the inability of colonial police and magistrates to understand the slang used by the criminal classes...Read more

Author: 
Kel Richards

Flash Jim

BOOK ADDED: Mon, 19/04/2021 - 1:25pm by Karen

The astonishing story of James Hardy Vaux, writer of Australia's first dictionary and first true-crime memoir

If you wear 'togs', tell a 'yarn', call someone 'sly', or refuse to 'snitch' on a friend then you are talking like a convict.

These words...Read more