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  • Scotland Yard's Gangbuster

    Bert Wickstead's Most Celebrated Cases

    by Dick Kirby ...
    In the late 1960s the Richardson Torture Gang and the Kray Twins were removed from the London scene by ACC Gerry McArthur and DS Nipper Read respectively.Predictably it was not long before the vacuum this left was being filled. With McArthur retired and Read moved on, who was to sort out the new gangland threat.Step forward Detective Chief Superintendent Bert Wickstead. Having cut his teeth on ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Missing Presumed Murdered

    The McKay Case and Other Convictions without a Corpse

    by Dick Kirby ...
    A former Scotland Yard detective examines real cases of murder in which accused criminals were convicted without a body found.Murders in any form, and the more gruesome the better, hold a morbid fascination to the British public but never more so than when the bodies of the victims are never found. Aside from the lack of closure for relatives and friends, this factor creates problems for police ... Read more

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  • Whitechapel's Sherlock Holmes

    The Casebook of Fred Wensley OBE KPM, Victorian Crime Buster

    by Dick Kirby ...
    Jack the Ripper and beyond—forty-one years in the investigative career of a man hailed by many as Scotland Yard's greatest detective of all time.Fred Wensley was a Somerset gardener when he joined the Metropolitan Police in 1888.His first case was to unmask Jack the Ripper. At least it familiarized Wensley with Whitechapel, where he bided his time collaring less threatening ne'er-do-wells. After ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Scotland Yard's Ghost Squad

    The Secret Weapon Against Post-War Crime

    by Dick Kirby ...
    When the Second World War ended, England was bombed-out and starving, with practically every saleable commodity rationed. It was the age of austerity and criminal opportunity. Thieves broke into warehouses, hijacked trucks and ransacked rail yards to feed the black market; others stole, recycled or forged ration coupons. Scotland Yard was 6,000 men under strength but something dramatic had to be ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Death on the Beat

    Police Officers Killed in the Line of Duty

    by Dick Kirby ...
    A former member of London's MP Flying Squad pays tribute to his fellow officers in a gripping and emotional true crime chronicle of duty and sacrifice.Dick Kirby of London's Serious Crime Squad shares ten stories of courage spanning fifty years of crime enforcement in the Metropolitan Police. In honoring the selfless men and women who gave their lives, Kirby sheds light on the ever-present dangers ... Read more

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  • The Category ‘A’ Escapers

    Thrilling Tales of the Most Dangerous Jail-Breakers

    by Dick Kirby ...
    Few subjects capture the public’s imagination more than the daring escape of dangerous criminals. In his latest thrilling book, former Scotland Yard detective Dick Kirby brings to life numerous examples of such dramatic events.These include the armed robber and a murderer lifted to freedom by helicopter from Gartree Prison football pitch. Later the mastermind, while serving a long sentence, ... Read more

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  • The Brave Blue Line

    100 Years of Metropolitan Police Gallantry

    by Dick Kirby ...
    In their daily battle against a remorseless tide of crime, officers of Londons Metropolitan Police routinely risk their lives protecting the Capital. In The Brave Blue Line Dick Kirby, the former Scotland Yard detective turned popularcrime author, has brought together a superb collection of inspiring stories of police gallantry over the last hundred years.Officers to be honoured with the George ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Operation Countryman

    The Flawed Enquiry into London Police Corruption

    by Dick Kirby ...
    In the summer of 1978, rumors emerged from the underworld that huge sums of money had been paid to the City of London Police to water-down evidence and arrange bail in cases of armed robbery. Then it was suggested that Scotland Yards Flying Squad was also involved.The Home Secretary appointed the Dorset Police to investigate but it became clear to the criminals upon whom they relied to provide ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • London's Gangs at War

    by Dick Kirby ...
    "Murder, torture and extortion all feature prominently as Mr. Kirby investigates some of the most famous incidents of the post-war era." — Daily Mail OnlineThe 1950s and 1960s saw a changing of the guard in London's gangland. A new and even more ruthless breed of criminal emerged to replace the aging generation of the likes of Sabini, Mullins and Hayes.Protection rackets on bookies, club owners ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Scotland Yard's Flying Squad

    100 Years of Crime Fighting

    by Dick Kirby ...
    A history of the famed London police unit, by a former member and author who "knows how to bring his coppers to life on each page" (Joseph Wambaugh, New York Times–bestselling author of The Onion Field).Since 1919, Scotland Yard's Flying Squad has been in the forefront of the war against crime. From patrolling London's streets in horse-drawn wagons, it has progressed to the use of the most ... Read more

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  • IRA Terror on Britain's Streets 1939–1940

    The Wartime Bombing Campaign and Hitler Connection

    by Dick Kirby ...
    It is little known today that, in January 1939, the IRA launched a bombing campaign, codenamed The S - or Sabotage - Plan on mainland England. With cynical self-justification, they announced that it was not their intention to harm human life but in just over a year, more than 300 explosive devices resulted in 10 deaths, 96 injuries and widespread devastation. London, Birmingham, Manchester, ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Mayfair Mafia

    The Lives and Crimes of the Messina Brothers

    by Dick Kirby ...
    This true crime history reveals the shocking career of the London mafia family that ran a thriving prostitution empire for decades.From the mid-1930s into the 1950s, one immigrant Italian family ran London's thriving vice trade. The five Messina brothers imported prostitutes from the Continent on an industrial scale, acquiring British citizenship for the women by phony marriages. Taking 80% of ... Read more

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