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12 produkter
Cleveland Street Scandal
How the Victorian Establishment was Almost Brought to its Knees
Av Neil Root
Inbunden, 2025
247 kr
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LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION 2026‘A fascinating and meticulously researched look at the biggest gay scandal to hit the headlines until Oscar Wilde. Absolutely a must-read.’ – Paul Donnelley, author of 501 Most Notorious CrimesIt’s the summer of 1889, and the royal family …
Crossing the Line of Duty
How Corruption, Greed and Sleaze Brought Down the Flying Squad
Av Neil Root
Häftad, 2019
198 kr
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The Metropolitan Police of the mid-twentieth century, in particular The Flying Squad and Obscene Publications Squad, has been described as ‘the most routinely corrupt organisation in London’. Larger-than-life characters such as Ken Drury and Alfred ‘Wicked Bill’ Moody routinely fraternised with …
Frenzy!
How the tabloid press turned three evil serial killers into celebrities
Av Neil Root
E-bok, 2012
147 kr
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Murder has transfixed the popular press for centuries. But it was only in the second half of the twentieth century that murder began saturating front pages and making these monsters what we today recognise as modern celebrities. It was three serial killers, caught and executed in the few years …
Gone
The Disappearance of Claudia Lawrence and Her Father's Desperate Search for the Truth
Av Neil Root
E-bok, 2013
170 kr
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The last time that anyone heard from 35-year-old Claudia Lawrence, a chef at the University of York, was when she sent a text message to a friend on 18 March 2009 at 8.23 p.m. She has never been heard from or seen again, and her disappearance is a mystery that endures to this day.What happened to …
Slumlord
Peter Rachman and the Post-war London Underworld
Av Neil Root
Inbunden, 2026
232 kr
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Peter Rachman dominated housing in post-war London - he owned vast swathes in the west of the city, accumulating huge wealth as his tenants lived in squalor and fear of his hard-nosed collectors and enforcers. He was also at the heart of the city's murky, post-war underworld.In Slumlord, Neil Root …
Who Killed Rosemary Nelson?
At last, the full story of the conspiracy behind the assasination of Northern Ireland's top human ri
Av Neil Root
E-bok, 2011
96 kr
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In March 1999, just months after the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, human rights lawyer Rosemary Nelson was assassinated when a bomb exploded under her car. The attack was claimed by a Loyalist paramilitary group but, over the last 10 years, there have been several government inquiries into …
Shadowside
Av Neil Root
E-bok, 2023
75 kr
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ENGLAND 1936: The Fleet Street journalist Harry Rose leaves his natural habitat of London and arrives at the Sunnyside asylum on the south coast in search of a missing girl, who has vanished without trace...Both professionally and personally, Rose feels compelled to find out what has happened to …
Murder Gang
Fleet Street’s Elite Group of Crime Reporters in the Golden Age of Tabloid Crime
Av Neil Root
Inbunden, 2018
225 kr
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They were an elite group of renegade Fleet Street crime reporters covering the most notorious British crime between the mid-1930s and the mid-1960s. It was an era in which murder dominated the front and inside pages of the newspapers – the ‘golden age’ of tabloid crime. Members of the Murder Gang …
