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The First Sixty Years of Scotland Yard's Flying Squad
The story of sixty years of Scotland Yards top crime-busting department has been written over a twenty year period by a former detective who spent ove...
Police Officers Killed in the Line of Duty
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 sacrifi...
On the Frontline with the Metropolitan Police
In his latest thrilling book, much published crime author Dick Kirby draws on his fast moving policing service, much of which was with Scotland Yard�...
In 1906 the Metropolitan Police Commissioner was asked by the Home Office to make available skilled investigators for murder inquiries nationwide as f...
100 Years of Crime Fighting
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 Wambaug...
100 Years of Metropolitan Police Gallantry
In their daily battle against a remorseless tide of crime, officers of Londons Metropolitan Police routinely risk their lives protecting the Capital. ...
The Lives and Crimes of the Messina Brothers
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...
Four Decades of Doping, Intimidation and Violent Crime
“So if you’re a fan of Peaky Blinders and want to read the true stories behind those characters and tales . . . this is the book for you.” —Br...
Seventy-Five Years of No-Nonsense Policing
Real-life stories of cops vs. criminals from a veteran of the Metropolitan Police and author praised for his “engaging style” (Joseph Wambaugh, #1...
The Secret Weapon Against Post-War Crime
When the Second World War ended, England was bombed-out and starving, with practically every saleable commodity rationed. It was the age of austerity ...
Bert Wickstead's Most Celebrated Cases
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 respectiv...
The Flawed Enquiry into London Police Corruption
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 an...
The Controversial Career of SAS Hero Detective Sergeant Harry Challenor MM
The Scourge of Soho describes the dramatic and eventful life of Detective Sergeant Harry Challenor MM and at the same time lifts the lid on front-line...
Ten of Scotland Yard's Greatest Detectives
The ten Scotland Yard detectives, featured in The Guvnors, are unique. Such a group of intrepid crime-busters will never exist again. They possessed o...
The Wartime Bombing Campaign and Hitler Connection
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 cy...
A Story of Corruption, Intimidation & Violence
“A welcome, detailed account of the background to the prosecution of Brighton police officers around 1957 and their Chief Constable.” —History b...
“Murder, torture and extortion all feature prominently as Mr. Kirby investigates some of the most famous incidents of the post-war era.” —Daily ...
The Shooting of Steven Waldorf and the Hunt for David Martin
David Ralph Martin was a cross-dressing criminal who carried out a string of sophisticated offences in the 1970s and '80s. A prolific burglar, car thi...
The Nude Murders and the Hunt for 'Jack the Stripper'
Between 1959 and 1965, eight murders were carried out in and around west London. The victims, all of whom were prostitutes, were asphyxiated. The murd...
The Casebook of Fred Wensley OBE, KPM- Victorian Crime Buster
The story of Fred Wensley, a Somerset gardener who joined the Metropolitan Police in 1888 and retired, forty-one years later as Chief Constable of the...
Plot, sneak, conjure, and creep your way through eight busy scenes featuring your favorite dastardly Disney villians....
From his bruising initial experience of giving evidence to the feat of securing Britain's first double-supergrass, Dick Kirby re-tells, with a strong ...
Memoirs of a Flying Squad Detective
Dick Kirby's frank account of his days in the Flying Squad and the Serious Crime Squad reveals a sleazy underworld of meetings in seedy cafes, the sma...
In the late 1950s the reputation of Brighton as a popular seaside resort took a sinister and notorious turn. After a series of drunken disturbances, s...
Times change and not always for the better. Dick Kirby, a former long serving Met officer and now best-selling author, maintains that the current poli...
Further Memoirs from the Real Sweeney on Life in the Serious Crime Squad
The controversial cop of The Real Sweeney is back - and he's taking no prisoners! You're Nicked! describes the golden era in the metropolitan police f...
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