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Scotland Yard's Casebook of Serious Crime Dick Kirby

Scotland Yard's Casebook of Serious Crime von Dick Kirby

Scotland Yard's Casebook of Serious Crime Dick Kirby


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Superb collection of crime solving cases by Scotland Yard

Scotland Yard's Casebook of Serious Crime Zusammenfassung

Scotland Yard's Casebook of Serious Crime: Seventy-Five Years of No-Nonsense Policing Dick Kirby

Times change and not always for the better. Dick Kirby, a former experienced Met detective and now best-selling author, maintains that the current politically correct culture coupled with an inept Crown Prosecution Service and aided and abetted by the Police & Criminal Evidence Act, has slowed the pursuit of criminals and justice to a snail’s pace. As this gripping book clearly demonstrates it was not always so. During the 20th Century, uniformed officers were visibly part of the community, patrolling their beats and protecting the public’s property. Detectives detected, cultivated informants and, like their uniform counterparts, knew the characters on their manor. What’s more, they were backed by their senior officers, who had on-the-job experience. Drawing on both celebrated and lesser known cases, the author vividly describes crime fighting against merciless gangsters, desperate gunmen, inept kidnappers, vicious robbers, daring burglars and ruthless blackmailers. Using his first-hand knowledge he highlights the often unconventional methods used to frustrate and outwit hardened criminals and the satisfaction gained from successful operations. One chapter – “An Old Master” – accurately describes the theft of Goya’s portrait, The Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in 1961. This audacious heist was recently adapted into film: “The Duke” starring Jim Broadbent as the thief and Helen Mirren as his long-suffering wife.

Über Dick Kirby

Dick Kirby was born in the East End of London and joined the Metropolitan Police in 1967. Half of his twenty-six years' service was spent with Scotland Yard's Serious Crime Squad and the Flying Squad. Kirby contributes to newspapers and magazines on a regular basis, as well as appearing on television and radio. The Guv'nors, The Sweeney, Scotland Yard's Ghost Squad, Brave Blue Line, Death on the Beat, Scourge of Soho, Scotland Yard's Flying Squad, London's Gangs at War, Scotland Yard's Gangbuster, The Mayfair Mafia, Scotland Yard's Murder Squad, The Racetrack Gangs and IRA Terror on Britain's Streets 1939 -1940 are all published under the Wharncliffe True Crime imprint and he has further other published works to his credit. On retirement he lives near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Kirby can be visited at his website: www.dickkirby.com.

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NGR9781399009621
9781399009621
1399009621
Scotland Yard's Casebook of Serious Crime: Seventy-Five Years of No-Nonsense Policing Dick Kirby
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd
2021-05-21
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