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Scotland Yard's Gangbuster Dick Kirby

Scotland Yard's Gangbuster By Dick Kirby

Scotland Yard's Gangbuster by Dick Kirby


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No-holds barred account of one man's crusade against London's gangs in the 1970s.

Scotland Yard's Gangbuster Summary

Scotland Yard's Gangbuster: Bert Wickstead's Most Celebrated Cases by Dick Kirby

In the late 1960s the Richardson Torture Gang and the Kray Twins were removed from the London scene by ACC Gerry McArthur and Det. Supt. Nipper Read respectively. Predictably it was not long before the vacuum this left was being filled. With McArthur retired and Read moved on, who was to sort out the new gangland threat? Step forward Detective Chief Superintendent Bert Wickstead. Having cut his teeth on young desperadoes and neo-Nazis in North London and solved London's biggest post war bank robbery, Wickstead was well qualified to head up the Yard's Serious Crime Squad. First to fall were the Dixon brothers, followed by the Tibbs family. As his fame spread he took on the West End Maltese Syndicate specialising in prostitution and extortion. When he broke up the Norma Levy call-girl ring, two cabinet peers had to resign. Inevitably Wickstead's career was dogged by unproved allegations of malpractice but, as this riveting insider' account conclusively proves, he more than earned his sobriquet The Gangbuster'.

About 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, The Brave Blue Line, Death on the Beat, Scourge of Soho, London's Gangs at War and Scotland Yard's Gangbuster are all published under the Pen & Sword True Crime imprint and he has further other published works to his credit. In retirement he lives near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Kirby can be visited at his website: www.dickkirby.com.

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GOR009733378
9781526751737
1526751739
Scotland Yard's Gangbuster: Bert Wickstead's Most Celebrated Cases by Dick Kirby
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
2019-07-01
224
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