The Crime Book

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DK LONDON SENIOR EDITOR Helen Fewster MANAGING ART EDITOR Michael Duffy MANAGING EDITOR Angeles Gavira Guerrero ART DIRECTOR Kar ...

SHANNA HOGAN Shanna Hogan is an award-winning journalist and The New York Times best-selling author of three true-crime books in ...

6 10 INTRODUCTION BANDITS, ROBBERS, AND ARSONISTS 18 Father of all treasons Thomas Blood 19 A civil, obliging robber John Neviso ...

7 ORGANIZED CRIME 136 The most hazardous of all trades, that of the smuggler The Hawkhurst Gang 138 In Sicily there is a sect of ...

8 218 She was very good looking with beautiful dark hair The Black Dahlia Murder 224 The artist was so well informed on chemical ...

9 FOREWORD I owe my career as a writer to crime – in more ways than one. In 1982 soon after my first novel, a spy thriller, had ...

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12 C rimes – the illegal actions that can be prosecuted and are punishable by law – are all around us, from comparatively petty ...

13 Sheldon Gang vied to become the major illegal alcohol suppliers in the city’s southwest Irish belt. The number of offences in ...

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16 T he general public has long romanticized bandits, admiring their courage, audacity, and unwillingness to live by the rules o ...

17 In the French town of Nice a few years later, thieves committed what was then the biggest heist in history when they drilled ...

18 See also: The Société Générale Bank Heist 44 ■ The Antwerp Diamond Heist 54–55 ■ The Affair of the Diamond Necklace 64– I ris ...