Crimes category: 7162 books
Druglord
Guns, Powder and Pay-Offs
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
When ruthless drug baron John Haase was sentenced to 18 years' imprisonment for heroin-trafficking in 1995, it was a major victory for Customs and the police. But in a shock move, after Haase and his partner Paul Bennett had served only 11 months, then Home Secretary Michael Howard signed a Royal...
by Stephen Breen, Owen Conlon
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
'It's incisive, it's intriguing, it's fascinating' - Ryan Tubridy, RTÉ
'Fascinating!' Keith Ward, FM104
The definitive account of the rise of the Kinahan gang and the deadly feud that has shocked the nation.
He is one of Ireland's most successful CEOs, running a global multinational...
by Phil Sparrowhawk, Martin King, Martin Knight
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
Grass is the incredible story of Phil Sparrowhawk, a working-class boy with gambling in his blood. Like most punters, he enjoyed an incredible run of luck, but finally rolled the dice once too often.
Before he had come of age, Phil had accumulated a small fortune from street trading. He then...
Hitmen
True Stories of Street Executions
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
Written by an investigative journalist, this book looks at professional killers, the people who hire them, and those who die at their hands. Among the true stories described are the story of the ultimate hitman, Carlos the Jackal, and how he was eventually brought to justice; the mother who hired...
by Peter Bleksley
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
TV's top fugitive hunter investigates the UK's worst unsolved murders.
Roughly ten per cent of all murders in the UK go unsolved. Here, Britain's top ex-undercover cop shines new light on cases up and down the country in search of answers.
Peter Bleksley's life has been devoted to investigating....
The Weasel
A Double Life in the Mob
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
In the world of organized crime, the bosses grab the headlines. But a crime family has many working parts and the young mobster known as The Weasel was the epitome of a crucial, invisible cog—the soldier, the muscle, the driver, the gopher. By a quirk of fate, Marvin Elkind—The Weasel—was placed...
Bloody Bill Longley
The Mythology of a Gunfighter, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
William Preston Bill Longley (1851-1878), though born into a strong Christian family, turned bad during Reconstruction in Texas, much like other young boys of that time, including the deadly John Wesley Hardin. He went on a murderous rampage over the last few years of his life, shotgunning Wilson Anderson...
Shallow Grave
The Unsolved Crime That Shook The Midwest
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
An upright citizen kidnapped in public and dumped in a shallow grave. A police chief’s wife arrested for murder. A mobster kidnapped by FBI. An ongoing corruption probe looking at everyone from lowest bookie to judges and prosecutors. What is going on in small town America?
Murder at Rocky Point Park
Tragedy in Rhode Island's Summer Paradise
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
The true story of a heartbreaking crime at a nineteenth-century amusement park.
On a summer day in 1893, against a backdrop of laughter and barrel organ music at Rocky Point Amusement Park, little Maggie Sheffield was murdered—by her own father.
But the tragedy aroused a strange reaction...
by Yiu-kong Chu
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
There is no doubt that the triads have become recognized as a sophisticated and international criminal force and, following the handover of Hong Kong to China, there have been increasing fears that their influence will spread to the West through emigration. This book investigates the reality behind...
Truth and Honour
The Death of Richard Oland and the Trial of Dennis Oland
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Truth and Honour explores the 2011 murder of Saint John businessman Richard Oland, of the prominent family that owns Moosehead Breweries, the ensuing police investigation and the arrest, trial, and conviction of the victim's son, Dennis Oland, for seconddegree murder.
Oland's trial...
by Daniel Donnelly
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
The structure of policing is undergoing change in Scotland at present and the profile of the police officer differs from that of the past. This book takes an informative approach and offers a unique account and insight into the Scottish police organisation, describing the ‘Scottish police officer’...
Police and Crime Commissioners
The transformation of police accountability
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) are elected representatives whose role is to ensure that police forces in England and Wales are running effectively. Intended to bring a public voice to policing and hold the police to account, the holders of this controversial role also control budgets and strategic...
Corruption in the Twenty-First Century
Combating Unethical Practices in Government, Commerce, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
For many people, corruption is a sound bite on the evening news. The reality is that corruption is more akin to a parasite, slowly drawing the lifeblood from a society.
In Corruption in the Twenty-First Century, author Vincent E. Green shares firsthand insight into the effects of corruption...