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One of this country’s biggest and most extraordinary murder-hunts, it brought together the pioneering forensic pathologist, Sir Bernard Spilsbury; the hangman, Albert Pierrepoint; the crusading journalist, Duncan Webb; and the Scotland Yard detective, Bob Fabian whose dazzling detective work led to the creation of Fabian of the Yard, the world’s first hit television cop show.
— Nov 06, 2015 01:56PM
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Nigeyb
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Robert Churchill confirms that the gun found in the muddy foreshaw at Wapping by a schoolboy was the one that fired the shot which killed Alec de Antiquis in Charlotte Street on 29 April 1947. The net is closing in. Loving this book.
— Nov 08, 2015 04:38AM
Nigeyb
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In London alone, 10,300 people between the ages of 14 and 20 were, by 1947, convicted members of criminal gangs. It was a wave of gun crime and gangsterism threatening to overwhelm post war London. Another winner from Willetts.
— Nov 06, 2015 04:05AM
Nigeyb
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Detailed but interesting account of police procedures.
— Nov 04, 2015 03:15PM
Nigeyb
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Detective Inspector Bob Higgins was also involved in investigating 'The Blackout Ripper' murders. Coincidently I read about him in "Without the Moon" which is, in part, Cathi Unsworth's fictionalised account of Gordon Cummins aka The Blackout Ripper.
— Nov 04, 2015 01:02PM
Nigeyb
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Predictably compelling, absorbing opening to this account of the murder that came to symbolise the crimewave threatening to overwhelm post-war London. Set in bomb-scarred London in 1947, it is the untold story of a Soho robbery and shooting carried out by a 17 year-old and his two young accomplices. Paul Willetts does it again.
— Nov 04, 2015 08:56AM
Nigeyb
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Good introduction by Paul Willetts in which he describes the research which he undertook with his customary rigour, and how everything in the book is based on this research.
— Nov 03, 2015 03:02PM
