The Perfect Crime is the eighth studio album by Australian rock band Cold Chisel.

It was the first album not to feature a contribution from drummer Steve Prestwich, who died of a brain tumour in January 2011.

Initial recording was done in Barnes' home studio, with the band working six hours a day on each song.

"[5] Moss clarified, "the real rock and roll is from the era of people like Little Richard and Chuck Berry.

Walker was initially hesitant to record them with Cold Chisel, but claimed he was, "swept along in the enthusiasm," of his bandmates.

[9] "All Hell Broke Lucy" was inspired the tale of Lucretia Dunkley who was the first woman hanged in Australia in 1843, at Berrima Gaol near Barnes' home.

"[10] "The Mansions" was inspired by an incident in Kings Cross where Walker saw a riot squad raid a brothel and arrest an escaped prisoner.

As the prisoner was led away, the early morning drinkers at the Mansions Hotel serenaded him as the jukebox played "My Way".

The Latino bar-band feel would likely fall apart in lesser hands, but here it just makes sense, swaggering with almost a Bruce Springsteen/Tom Waits kind of jauntiness.

It delves further back to their rock'n'roll roots with chief songwriter Don Walker carving up the keys, guitarist Ian Moss both gritty and sublime."

[13] Reviewed in Rolling Stone Australia, the first song was said to "slam in at full tilt, Don Walker hammering a low left-hand boogie while Jimmy Barnes exercises a newfound clarity in his upper register."