Peter Doyle is a fiction and non-fiction author. He has a Bachelor of Arts (Communications) from UTS and a PhD from Macquarie University. Get Rich Quick was the co-winner 1997 Ned Kelly Award, best first crime novel and Amaze Your Friends won the winner Ned Kelly Award, best crime novel, 1999.
Get Rich Quick : Sydney, 1950s. The war is getting colder, the skirts are getting shorter. Time of the six o'clock swill and the big hangover. Home of the most corrupt police force money can buy. The unruly element is going mental for that low-down dirty bop.
Billy Gasheen Esquire, lurk merchant and milk bar cowboy, chases the big pay-day through a web of bent coppers, loose women and mad reffos fighting for causes no one remembers.
ASIO is looking under the bed for commos, Little Richard is looking to the skies for the Second Coming. But Billy's no mug - Big Money is the favourite and he's backed it for a win.
Good times, good sorts and bad luck have kept Billy poor, but hey, it's a new day, a new scam...another chance to GET RICH QUICK.
