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Dick Kirby

    Scotland Yard's Casebook of Serious Crime
    The Sweeney: The First Sixty Years of Scotland Yard's Crimebusting
    The Scourge of Soho
    The Racetrack Gangs
    Scotland Yard's Flying Squad
    Operation Countryman
    • 2022
    • 2022

      Examines cases where convictions were achieved without the victims' bodies being found.

      Missing Presumed Murdered
    • 2022

      In their daily battle against a remorseless tide of crime, officers of London's Metropolitan Police routinely risk their lives protecting society.Veteran detective and crime author Dick Kirby has brought together a superb collection of inspiring stories of police gallantry over the last hundred years.All four officers to be honored with the George Cross, the highest civilian award have their stories told including Jim Beaton who saved Princess Anne from kidnap in The Mall.Three women officers have been awarded the George Medal, two for decoy work, the third for a heroic rooftop rescue.The book concludes with the astonishing story of a retired detective who tackled armed robbers at the cost of his eye. He may have left the Met behind him but not his courage.Every page of this gripping book is full of excitement and courage of the highest order.

      The Brave Blue Line
    • 2021

      Reveals the inside story of arguably the most notorious and long running scandal in British policing history.

      The Brighton Police Scandal
    • 2021
    • 2021
    • 2020
    • 2020

      'No-Holds-Barred' account of vicious gang warfare in 1920s and 1930s England centred on greyhound tracks and horse racing courses.

      The Racetrack Gangs
    • 2019
    • 2019

      The Mayfair Mafia

      • 224 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      Superbly researched and no-holds-barred account of a vicious criminal family.

      The Mayfair Mafia