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by Dougie Brimson
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Faultless - Football365As EURO 2000 approached, attention once again focused on the potential threat posed by the activities of football hooligans. Not just those from England, but also from Holland, Belgium, Germany,Italy, France and even Turkey.Yet as this last year has proven, whilst the hooligans...
by Charles Dickens
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author).
*An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience.
*This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors.
Anyone who has ever read a novel by Charles Dickens is well...
Popular Crime
Reflections on the Celebration of Violence
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
The man who revolutionized the way we think about baseball now examines our cultural obsession with murder—delivering a unique, engrossing, brilliant history of tabloid crime in America.
Celebrated writer and contrarian Bill James has voraciously read true crime throughout his life and has...
Who Killed These Girls?
Cold Case: The Yogurt Shop Murders
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
From the author of Crossed Over, another masterful account of a horrible crime: the murder of four girls, countless other ruined lives, and the evolving complications of the justice system that frustrated the massive attempts--for twenty-five years now--to find and punish those who committed it.
The...
The Scottsboro Boys in Their Own Words
Selected Letters, 1931-1950
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
This is a collection of letters written by the nine African American defendants in the infamous March 1931 Scottsboro, Alabama, rape case. Though most of the defendants were barely literate and all were teenagers when incarcerated, over the course of almost two decades in prison they learned the rudiments...
Crimelord: The Licensee
The True Story of Tam McGraw
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
Crimelord is the gripping life story of elusive multimillionaire gangster Tam McGraw. A notorious criminal kingpin, McGraw has risen from extreme poverty in the East End of Glasgow to become one of Scotland's wealthiest men.
When hash started to flood into Scotland from the late 1980s onwards,...
Blood on the Streets
A-Z of Glasgow Crime
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2009
For more than a hundred years, Glasgow has been right up there in the major league of big-city crime. From Madelaine Smith and Oscar Slater, by way of the Bridgeton Billy Boys and the Norman Conks, through to modern villains like Paul Ferris and Tam McGraw, Glasgow's streets have spawned a succession...
Streetfighters
Real Fighting Men Tell Their Stories
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2018
In every city and town, there are men who have earned notoriety with their fists. Hardmen, bouncers, bareknuckle brawlers and enforcers, they are throwbacks to an age when disputes when settled in blood.
In this revealing book, Julian Davies interviews two dozen of the toughest streetfighters...
Talking with Serial Killers
The Most Evil People in the World Tell Their Own Stories
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003
An investigative criminologist, Christopher Berry-Dee is a man who talks to serial killers. In this book, their pursuit of horror and violence is described in their own words, transcribed from audio and videotape interviews conducted deep inside some of the toughest prisons in the world. Berry-Dee...
Terrorist Cop
The NYPD Jewish Cop Who Traveled the World to Stop Terrorists
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
Terrorist Cop is a colorful, haunting, and highly graphic tale of New York City homicide detective Morty Dzikansky. Dzikansky's career began with a yarmulke on his head, patrolling Brooklyn's streets, and going undercover to catch a band of Torah thieves. Post 9/11, the NYPD sent Dzikansky to Israel...
There's a Sucker Born Every Minute
A Revelation of Audacious Frauds, Scams, and Cons -- How toSpot Them, How to Sto p Them
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
One in nine Americans will lose money as a victim of fraud
• Every man and woman in the country (and every child with an email address) will be targeted by professional fraudsters-multiple times.
• Seven out of every eight frauds go unreported.
• Most fraudsters will get away with their...
by John McShane
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2009
The tragic and violent death of 17-month old Baby P at the hands of those who were supposed to love and care for him has sickened the nation. That such unimaginable cruelty could be unleashed on an innocent child - and fail to be picked up on by the authorities - has led to a public outcry and a media...
The Devil
Britain's Most Feared Underworld Taxman
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
Drug dealers beware. The Devil is coming to get you.
Gangster Stephen French invented the perfect crime: robbing drug barons of their huge fortunes. In SAS-style swoops, French raided their fortified mansions and tortured them with horrifying violence until they paid up. Through 'taxing' the...
Powder Wars
The Supergrass who Brought Down Britain's Biggest Drug Dealers
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
Gangster Paul Grimes was a one-man crimewave with a breathtaking capacity to steal. Any villains who got in his way were made to pay - often with their blood. But when his son died of a drugs overdose, the old-school mobster swore revenge on the new generation of Liverpool-based heroin and cocaine...