Wrong Side of the Law: True Stories of Crime

by Edward Butts

Bestselling true crime author Edward Butts presents a rogues’ gallery of desperadoes whose crimes range from robbery to murder.

English bank robbers on the run turn up in Newfoundland. A legendary Nova Scotia detective matches wits with smugglers. In the West the Mounties track down bandits and rustlers. Vancouver police officers hunt down the bank-robbing Hyslop Gang in the 1930s. A decade later the Polka Dot Gang rampages across Southern Ontario. The Newton Brothers’ Gang, outlaws from Texas, engage in a gunfight with bank guards on the streets of Toronto, and a former Canadian Pacific Railway engineer masterminds a sensational kidnapping in Colorado.

No matter where the atrocities were committed and no matter what the circumstances, these individuals all had one thing in they lived on the wrong side of the law.

Genres: True Crime

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2013

About the author

Ed Butts https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

Reviews

[Jennie · Rating 3 out of 5]

A true Canadian collection by a Canuck. Excellently detailed stories about murders and robberies all over the country. Mug shots and photographs included. My only disappointment is the pictured maps; difficult to read and somewhat confusing. Fabulous read.

[Alexe · Rating 2 out of 5]

Good stories, not for me.

[Julia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Canadian crimes you might not of heard about.