Robert Jeffrey: 80 books
Real Hard Cases
Unsolved crimes reinvestigated
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Some serious crimes are open-and-shut cases, what the cops call no-brainers, but others- the REAL HARD CASES - remain either unsolved or with serious doubts hanging over them. Sometimes for years. Now, after a legendary crime-fighting career, former Glasgow detective Les Brown and bestselling crime...
Square Mile of Murder
Horrific Glasgow Killings
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2002
Four of Britain's most notorious murders took place within a square mile of Glasgow's city centre around the turn of the last century. Madeleine Smith was accused and found 'Not Proven' of lacing her doomed lover's late night cocoa with arsenic; an 83-year-old woman was brutally battered to death;...
Glasgow's Godfather
The Astonishing Story of Walter Norval the City's First Crime Boss
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2011
Walter Norval was a man marked by destiny to be a career criminal in one of Britain's hardest cities. As a boy he grew up in a world of illegal betting, violent canal bank pitch-and-toss schools, sleazy dance halls, brothels and bars where the denizens of the slums in the north side of Glasgow slaked...
Peterhead
Inside Scotland's Toughest Prison
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Robert Jeffrey, author of the bestselling Barlinnie Story and other true crime books, now tells the remarkable story of the infamous Peterhead Prison in Scotland's far north-east. Built in the 1880s as part of an ambitious humanitarian plan to use convict labour to construct a 'harbour of refuge'...
Scotland's Cruel Sea
Heroism and Disaster off the Scottish Coast
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
High cliffs jutting out into the Atlantic and the North Sea, many hundreds of rocky skerries, deep sea lochs, dangerous unseen reefs, powerful tides and gales that batter the land fiercely from all points of the compass . . . Scotland has a coastline of immense beauty and danger, and its cruel sea...
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...
by Robert Jeffrey
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Riots, death, retribution and redemption in Scotland's infamous prison. Barlinnie is one of the most notorious prisons in the world and for more than a hundred years it has held Glasgow's toughest and most violent men, swept up from the city streets. Ten men died on its gallows in the infamous Hanging...
Glasgow Crimefighter
The Les Brown Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2005
For decades, a war to control Glasgow's streets has been waged. On one side are some of the most violent and dangerous criminals in the world and, on the other, a police force with officers as hard as the gangsters, striving to keep the city safe. In GLASGOW CRIMEFIGHTER, legendary detective Les Brown...
by Robert Jeffrey
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2006
For more than 100 years the poverty and desperation of Glasgow's slums fuelled the violence of the gangs. But some men were bigger than any gang. Men like Arthur Thompson, Walter Norval and Paul Ferris - brutal and remorseless - came to cast a shadow of fear over the whole city. But the gangsters...
Gangs of Glasgow
True Crime From the Streets
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2008
In the twenty-first century, Glasgow is still a city living down a fearsome reputation for crime. And for some citizens of the Dear Green Place, brawling is in the blood and gang warfare is a way of life. The stinking deprivation of the Gorbals and the East End, deprivation that helped spawn pre-war...
by Balogun Ojetade, Gerald Coleman, Valjeanne Jeffers
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2018
The Dark Age is over and the Known is in the firm grasp of the Cassads. As the galaxy spins, dragging planets and star systems in its wake, unrest rises to the surface of the celestial firmament. For while the Cassads burn brightly, the people under their rule are neglected and stifled. The Dark Age...
Gentle Johnny Ramensky
The Extraordinary True Story of the Safe Blower Who Became a War Hero
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Throughout an astonishing criminal career, Johnny Ramensky was the foremost safe-blower of his era. His exploits and audacious escapes from maximum security prisons also helped make him a household name - admired by some, notorious to others. But when the Second World War broke out, Ramensky joined...
Giants of the Clyde
The great ships and the great yards
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
There is barely a corner of the five great oceans where Clyde-built is not recognised as the ultimate shipbuilding accolade. As late as the 1950s, around a seventh of the total of the world’s sea going tonnage was built on the Clyde. It is not a particularly wide river, nor spectacularly long –...
by Jeffrey J. Fox, Robert Reiss
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
Leadership Lessons from the World’s Greatest CEOs
“Fox and Reiss have created a new leadership category—The Transformative CEO.”
—Rafael Pastor, CEO, Vistage International
Bestselling author Jeffrey Fox literally wrote the book on How to Become CEO, and radio talk show host...