Investing with the Grand Masters

Business & Money

JAMES MORTON

Economics

Financial Times Prentice Hall (a Pearson Education company)

Gangland International: The Mafia and Other Mobs

Beginning with the changing definitions of the term "organized crime", this is a history of the subject and its criminal exponents, tracing the complex links, trading and even homage which extends between the criminals of one country and another. The account begins at the turn of the century.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Time Warner Books Uk

Gangland: The Contract Killers

Little, Brown, UK

The early criminals were just as violent, dangerous and daring as their more recent relations. After a raid on the American Express in Paris, Eddie Guerin was sent to Devil's Island from which he escaped and survived, probably by eating his fellow escapees. "Gangland: The Early Years" is about criminal society and the characters who brought it about in the 19th and 20th centuries. It concentrates on the aristocrats of crime - men and women who stole and spent fortunes. Whilst a great many ended their lives in prison and poverty, some went on to become millionaires and members of society. One of the lesser known facts of criminal life of 19th century is the ease with which criminals from London and New York moved between the two cities, as well as spreading their enterprises into Europe. After a successful robbery in America or England, members of the team might take an extended "working holiday". The files of the Pinkerton Detective Agency are littered with reports of the Americans who were working in Europe and the English thieves in New York or Chicago.

Gangland the Early Years : The Gangs of New York, London and Paris

Little,Brown & Co

In July 1965 Freddie Mills, popular former light heavyweight champion of the world, was found shot in an alleyway off London's Charing Cross Road. Was he murdered and if so by whom? Did he kill himself—and if so, why should this happily married man whose popularity was immense take his own life? A year later Britain's second world champion of the era, the middleweight Randolph Turpin, was found shot dead in a room above his cafe in Leamington Spa. How did this man who earned thousands during his career come to end his life in a backstreet cafe? Or was he also murdered? Morton looks at the role of their managers and promoters, and the relationship with the Boxing Board of Control. Should many of Mills' fights and some of Turpin's have been sanctioned? Is this in part what led to their deaths? Is there any possible truth in the persistent rumours that Mills was the so-called Jack the Stripper, killer of prostitutes in Hammersmith?

Fighters: The Sad Lives and Deaths of Freddie Mills and Randolph Turpin

Little, Brown Book Group

Gangland: London's Underworld

History

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Little,Brown

London's Godfathers of Crime: The Kray Twins (Murder Casebook: Investigations into the Ultimate Crime)

David Jessel

Bill Waddell

Dr Susan Blake

Marshall Cavendish

Lola Montez

(Portrait 2007)

Conned

Portrait

The extraordinary life of the most notorious adventuress of the Victorian era.How did an Irish Protestant girl, baptized Eliza Gilbert, transform herself into the most famous courtesan of the nineteenth century, attracting admirers and scandal wherever she went?

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