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The Encyclopedia of London Crime (Hardcover)

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  • Hardcover: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Sutton Publishing Ltd (12 Dec 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 075093302X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0750933025
  • Product Dimensions: 24.4 x 17.8 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 820,038 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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This unique overview of london crime covers an enormous chronological span, from Roman London to the present, and deals with topics from the Adams Gang to the Kray brothers. There are entries on famous (or infamous) criminals and criminal gangs, on leading judges and advocates, on famous murder cases, on great detectives in fiction and in fact, on methods of punishment, on prisons, on public disorder - all of London's underworld history is here. With over 3,000 entries and more than 100 black and white illustrations, The Encyclopedia of London Crime is an ideal reference tool and a wonderful resource for anyone who wants to browse through the history of London's colourful and immensely rich darker side.

About the Author
Fergus Linnane is a writer and journalist who has worked on the Daily Mail and the Sun and was night editor of the Daily Mirror, executive editor of the European and editor of the English language Moscow News, His previous books include London's Underworld.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Good coverage, poor detail, 9 Aug 2008
By Junius (London, Middlesex United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This book covers hundreds of years of crime and vice in London, but is poor on detail. In almost every case in this book on which this reviewer knows something, errors of fact and judgement abound.

For instance, the author states Martha Tabram was 35 on death and that Mary Jane Kelly was married. Martha Tabram was 39; and I know of no evidence to suggest Kelly was married. The author states that Melville McNaghten was a Ripper expert, yet he joined the police after the killings had ceased. In any case, Sir MM said there were five murders only and here, the author claims there were six. The author thinks Druitt was born in 1840 - his birth certificate says 1857. Because the latter was a doctor's son and may have studied medicine, he was the Ripper, but we have no evidence to say he did study medicine - in fact, on leaving Oxford, he became a schoolmaster very soon after, as well as being a barrister. If the fact his father was a doctor is proof he was the Ripper, then this is very weak indeed, and in fact, no proof whatsoever.

Marlowe was with three other men in Deptford according to the inquest on his death, not two as stated here.

Whether Christie killed Mrs Evans is highly debated, but here it is passed off as fact.

Amelia Jeffs was not killed in West Ham Park, but in a house nearby. The other missing girls vanished earlier that decade, not in 1890 as suggested here.

The author refers to a murdered blackmailer - but the man died peacefully in bed.

There is the statement that Edmund Pook killed Jane Clousen, but witnesses claim he was elsewhere at the time, so it seems impossible.

A little checking would have helped this book, relying as it does wholly on published sources and not straying far from the beaten track of the usual suspects.
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