Pulp Fiction: Quick and Dirty Publishing from the 40s and 50s (2015)

It has been a busy couple of years for crime writer and academic Dr Peter Doyle, who has had launched several popular exhibitions, and whose books, including City of Shadows and Crooks Like Us have become hugely popular amongst crime history aficionados. And, following his 2013 exhibition Suburban Noir, Doyle will start off 2015 with a new exhibition in February: Pulp Fiction: Quick and Dirty Publishing from the 40s and 50s. Doyle will be the curator of the exhibition, to be held at the State Library of New South Wales. The exhibition will feature vintage cover art from crime books, illustrations, and comic book panels from the Sydney publishing house Frank Johnson Publications.

City of Shadows (Exhibition)

Starting tomorrow, June 29, the Sydney Living Museums is re-opening the City of Shadows Exhibition, a terrifically dark look at Sydney crime and razor gangs during the 1920s, 30s and 40s. The stunningly gruesome and gritty police forensic photography will be on show at Sydney’s Police and Justice Museum. The exhibition comes from the work of Sydney writer and academic, Peter Doyle (pictured below), whose work City of Shadows: Sydney Police Photographs, 1912-1948 (2005) and Crooks like Us (2009) has inspired the exhibition, and who works as a part-time curator of the museum. While not immediately associated with crime, the city of Sydney has a shady past of colourful crooks and gangsters. Also to feature in 2013 is the much-anticipated Suburban Noir exhibition, also curated and organised by Doyle, which is to feature artistic interpretations -paintings, photographs- of police forensic photography collected and archived by Doyle.