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The Last Godfather - The Life and Crimes of Arthur Thompson
Reg McKay
This fully revised edition of The Last Godfather visits places no law-abiding person has been. The gunrunning, murders, drug dealing and torture are all still there but there's much more
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Villains: It Takes One to Know One
Paul Ferris and Reg McKay
Paul Ferris recounts the stories of a tough existence that nobody knows better. The brutality you'd expect, the strangeness you might not. There's the man wanted by everyone from the Old Bailey to Glasgow High Court but who might just be a figment of the cops' imagination; the rise of women in the underworld, with unheard-of power and loaded pistols in thigh holsters; or the betrayed Manchester face who visited a gang's club and sprayed it with bullets, only to become the gang's hero overnight.
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Killers, Crooks and Cons - Scotland's Crimes of the Century
Reg McKay
Scotland has a heritage you don't often see on shortbread tins. Killers, crooks and cons - these are as Scottish
as whisky, tartan and haggis. Going decade by decade through the twentieth century and telling the true stories
of crime on Scotland's mean streets, Killers, Crooks and Cons is an exploration of the dark side of our country's
past.
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Murder Capital
Reg McKay
Glasgow is a city of contradictions. People love the place and feel safe going about their daily lives. But they also know there’s a dark side. Now, Reg McKay reveals the truth about the killers, the victims and life and death on the streets of Glasgow, the Murder Capital of Europe.
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Crimes Past
Robert Jeffrrey
A unique photographic journey through the crimes that shocked Glasgow. Using photographs from The Herald and Evening Times archive, Crimes Past shows the city as you've never seen it before.
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The Law Killers - True Crime from Dundee
Alexander McGregor
Every town has its monsters. But only when their rage explodes and unspeakable crimes are committed do we realise we hold them in our midst. Some are unpredictable psychopaths, others achieve notoriety after a moment of madness when a single out-of-character act changes their lives forever. One thing is for certain, homicide comes in many guises – the only thing most have in common is a corpse.
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Vendetta - Turning Your Back on Crime can be Deadly ...
Paul Ferris & Reg McKay
Paul Ferris ruled crime in Scotland, but when he was released from prison in 2002 he told the world that he was walking away from his life of crime. Vendetta tells the astonishing inside story of what happened next to Paul Ferris. And it’s a story of international gangsters, hit contracts, murders, bank scams, Essex-boy torturers, corrupt politics, crack-head hit-men, knife duels, securi-wars, drugs, guns, Yardies, terrorists and more.
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 | Glasgow Crimefighter: The Les Brown Story
Les Brown and Robert Jeffrey
The true story of one of Glasgow’s most controversial detectives
and his battle with the criminals and violent street gangs of the city. |
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Robert Jeffrey
Glasgow has recently developed a reputation as a sophisticated and vibrant city, renowned for its great shopping and entertainment, and winner of the title of European City of Culture. Yet behind the bright lights of this thriving city, Glasgow also has a much darker story to tell. For more than 100 years Glasgow was known worldwide for its gangsters and villains and this book traces the history of the city's gangland violence from the bloody turf wars, extortion and religious battles to the rise in drug dealing today.
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Torso in the Tank - True Crime from around Tyne And Wear
Stephen Wade
Every area of the UK has its share of violent crimes – events so shocking that they linger in the community’s collective memory for many years – and, in this respect, the north east of England is no different.
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Kenny Richey - Death Row Scot
Tom Richey
Tells the full story of an astonishing
miscarriage of justice for the first time. Kenny has been on Death Row for
nearly twenty years for a crime he did not commit and has faced execution
many times. Now Kenny's brother Tom, with Kenny's full cooperation, tells
the story of how he came to be on Death Row, how he has survived it and how
the case against him was built on circumstantial evidence and supposition.
This is the true story of one man's courageous fight for justice against a
judicial system determined to execute him for a crime he did not commit.
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Hangman's Brae - True Crimes & Punishment in Aberdeen and the North-East
Norman Adams
A vividly written account of the blood-curdling crimes and brutal forms of punishment of north-east Scotland. The book explores the areas underworld and features the grave-robbers, jail-breakers, rioters and other lawbreakers whose crimes led them to premature deaths at the end of a rope or at the not so delicate hands of The Maiden, a gruesome decapitating device predating the French guillotine.
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