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Mar 2021
54m 8s

Episode 19: The Black Widow

Sunday World
About this episode
She is the self-professed gangsters' moll who married a mobster and then wound up in prison for life for the murder of her hard-man lover.

But Linda Calvey has turned her own experiences in the underworld into the basis for her new career and as she launches her debut novel she insists that is thrilled to be finally making an honest living out of crime.

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