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Breathless Diversions

Delano, Anthony

Harper&Row

Slip-up: How Fleet Street caught Ronnie Biggs and Scotland Yard lost him : the story behind the scoop

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

HarperCollins Distribution Services

'The ultimate tabloid story'... 'A fantastic read...' Comments like these on the website TrashFiction helped turn the original edition of this book into a cult sensation. Copies were selling on amazon.com for US$325. '...You don't often see it around, but take my advice: if you do come across it, leap on it and lap it up.' Joyce McKinney was a former beauty queen from North Carolina, originally obsessed by the Osmond family, who became so infatuated by a young Mormon missionary that she followed him to Britain, kidnapped him and - allegedly (for the trial never came to court) - raped him. This NEW version includes everything that was in the earlier one and even more - what happened to Joyce after she fled the country to avoid being tried at the Old Bailey for raping a man. 'The tabloids really went wild... The Daily Mirror had a fabulous expos ready for publication, as this book relates. It's really top quality tabloid sensationalism'. Written by Anthony Delano, Chief US Correspondent of the Daily Mirror, one of the team that tracked down the truth about the amazing Joyce McKinney.

Slip-up: How Fleet Street Caught Ronnie Biggs and Scotland Yard Lost Him : the Story Behind the Scoop

Hodder & Stoughton General Division

Heinemann

The inside story of the wild International hunt for the last of the Great Train Robbers.

Slip-Up: The Inside Story of the Wild International Hunt for the Last of the Great Train Robbers

Quadrangle/New York Times Book Co.

Keith Waterhouse, who wrote an ill-fated screenplay based on this book, said that Slip-Up was `Perhaps the best analysis of Fleet Street at work ever written¿. It is the story of the discovery in Rio de Janeiro of Ronald Biggs, a celebrity fugitive on the run for 12 years after the Great Train Robbery of 1963 and the fiasco that resulted when newsmen and detectives worked out a bizarre plot to bring him back to Britain. Initially a cosy, if highly irregular, conspiracy between Scotland Yard and the Daily Express, the hunt for Biggs soon embroiled every circulation-hungry rival newspaper. And where Fleet Street led, the world¿s news media followed. It was The Story of the Century. Scotland Yard was outwitted from bungled beginning to embarrassed end. The Express was mercilessly mauled by its opponents. The ends of justice were soon forgotten. Biggs had (unwittingly though literally) planted the seeds of his own salvation and, infamously, he kept out of jail for another 27 years. Behind the blazing headlines an even more entertaining farce had been played out but the enthralled public and exasperated British government knew nothing of it until Anthony Delano, a veteran Fleet Street man himself, produced this riveting account of greed, ambition and double-dealing among a tribe of high-powered hacks on the warpath.

Slip-Up: How Fleet Street Caught Ronnie Biggs and Scotland Yard Lost Him: The Story Behind the Scoop

Biographies & Memoirs

True Crime

Revel Barker

'The ultimate tabloid story'... 'A fantastic read...' Comments like these on the website TrashFiction helped turn the original edition of this book into a cult sensation. Copies were selling on amazon.com for US$325. '...You don't often see it around, but take my advice: if you do come across it, leap on it and lap it up.' Joyce McKinney was a former beauty queen from North Carolina, originally obsessed by the Osmond family, who became so infatuated by a young Mormon missionary that she followed him to Britain, kidnapped him and - allegedly (for the trial never came to court) - raped him. This NEW version includes everything that was in the earlier one and even more - what happened to Joyce after she fled the country to avoid being tried at the Old Bailey for raping a man. 'The tabloids really went wild... The Daily Mirror had a fabulous exposé ready for publication, as this book relates. It's really top quality tabloid sensationalism'. Written by Anthony Delano, Chief US Correspondent of the Daily Mirror, one of the team that tracked down the truth about the amazing Joyce McKinney.

Joyce McKinney And The Case Of The Manacled Mormon

Before news was shot on microchips and delivered on the internet, getting the pictures home could be as dangerous as filming under fire. Reporter David Talbot and the outrageous cameraman Donnelly come from that frantic time of the Kennedy Assassination, Vietnam and the desperate Arab-Israeli wars. And when they were at home the rackety world of 1970s London and New York. As did sloppy, sexy Adeline Tooth, the star magazine writer who gave as good as she got at the bar in Elaine's, in a desert dugout, or covering the Watergate drama.

Too Much Good Time

Action & Adventure

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

American wire service correspondent SHELBY STONE is posted to mid-20th century Rome, the Dolce Vita era. Intrigue and scandal surge between Cinecittá and the Vatican, the Deep South of Calabria and the glittering Via Veneto. He is taken in hand by an oversized and outrageous couple who are a goldmine of insights into the pre-war Italy of Benito Mussolini - Il Duce.'the Duck'. He helps a Mother Superior promote her convent as a fashion house - Holy Shirt. Watches a rowdy American singer convert an entire piazza into a restaurant. Meets the British script doctor Italian directors rely on to make their films screenworthy. Gets to know a cosmetics queen with a secret ingredient, and her glamorous gang of multi-married Hungarian jewellery smugglers. He falls for an actress married to a prince but yearns for the girl from back home whose career threatens to outshine his.

Dateline: Rome

Palatino

They Sang Like Kangaroos: Australia's 'Tinpot Navy' in the Great War

Arcadia/Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty Ltd

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Breathless Diversions

Slip-up: How Fleet Street caught Ronnie Biggs and Scotland Yard lost him : the story behind the scoop

Slip-up: How Fleet Street Caught Ronnie Biggs and Scotland Yard Lost Him : the Story Behind the Scoop

Breathless Diversions

Slip-Up: The Inside Story of the Wild International Hunt for the Last of the Great Train Robbers

Slip-Up: How Fleet Street Caught Ronnie Biggs and Scotland Yard Lost Him: The Story Behind the Scoop

Joyce McKinney And The Case Of The Manacled Mormon

Too Much Good Time

Dateline: Rome

They Sang Like Kangaroos: Australia's 'Tinpot Navy' in the Great War