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  • Glasgow Crimefighter

    The Les Brown Story

    by Robert Jeffrey, Sheila Brown ...
    For decades, a war to control Glasgow's streets has been waged. On one side are some of the most violent and dangerous criminals in the world and, on the other, a police force with officers as hard as the gangsters, striving to keep the city safe. In GLASGOW CRIMEFIGHTER, legendary detective Les Brown tells the extraordinary and controversial inside story of his part in this conflict during his ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Youth Offending and Youth Justice

    by James Armitage, Sheila Brown, Mark Halsey, Anna King, Shadd Maruna, Susan McVie, Rod Morgan, Joanna Phoenix, Anna Souhami ...
    Series series Research Highlights in Social Work
    How is the modern world shaping young people and youth crime? What impact is this having on the latest policies and practice? Are current youth justice services working? With contributions from leading researchers in the field, this book offers an insightful, scholarly and critical analysis of such key issues.Youth Offending and Youth Justice engages constructively with current policy and practice ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

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    The Real Education of TJ Crowley

    Coming of Age on the Redline: An Audio Drama

    by May Wuthrich, Grant Overstake ...
    Narrated by Kirby Heyborne, Graham Halstead, Ari Fliakos, Sheila Brown Kinnard, a full cast, Peter Berkrot, Dani Martineck, Michael Crouch, Tavia Gilbert, Thérèse Plummer, Johnny Heller, Brittany Pressley, John Wright, Dion Graham, Kevin R. Free, Nicole Small ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 15 min

    2025 Audie Award Winner - Best Young Adult AudiobookAudioFile Earphones Award | IPPY AwardWichita, summer 1968. The city’s redline still runs down the middle of TJ Crowley’s street. His father is gone. His brother is in Vietnam. His mother is unraveling. Then the Washingtons—a Black family with a daughter his age—move in next door.TJ is thirteen, with a temper he can’t control and a man from his ... Read more

    $22.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Real Hard Cases

    True Crime from the Streets

    by Robert Jeffrey, Sheila Brown ...
    This book presents more hard hitting cases from the authors of "Glasgow Crimefighter". As legendary Glasgow detective Les Brown re-investigates cases from Stratford in east London to Wick, via Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Ayrshire and Renfrewshire, he finds that, often, the official police line doesn't quite add up...The body of a young electrician is dragged from a harbour. The police say the death was ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

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  • Gentle Johnny Ramensky

    The Extraordinary True Story of the Safe Blower Who Became a War Hero

    by Robert Jeffrey ...
    Throughout an astonishing criminal career, Johnny Ramensky was the foremost safe-blower of his era. His exploits and audacious escapes from maximum security prisons also helped make him a household name - admired by some, notorious to others. But when the Second World War broke out, Ramensky joined the elite Commandos and his story became legend. Peacetime had brought Johnny Ramensky a hard ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Glasgow: The Real Mean City

    True Crime and Punishment in the Second City of the Empire

    by Malcolm Archibald ...
    There cannot be many cities where crime could mean anything from singing a seditious song to stealing a ship, but nineteenth-century Glasgow was a unique place with an amazing dynamism. Immigrants poured in from Ireland and the Highlands, while the factories, shipyards and mills buzzed with innovation. However, underneath the hustle and bustle was a different world, as an incredibly diverse ... Read more

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  • Blood on the Streets

    A-Z of Glasgow Crime

    by Robert Jeffrey ...
    For more than a hundred years, Glasgow has been right up there in the major league of big-city crime. From Madelaine Smith and Oscar Slater, by way of the Bridgeton Billy Boys and the Norman Conks, through to modern villains like Paul Ferris and Tam McGraw, Glasgow's streets have spawned a succession of fascinating tales of true crime. Even in the twenty-first century, as the new Glasgow polishes ... Read more

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  • Gangs of Glasgow

    True Crime From the Streets

    by Robert Jeffrey ...
    In the twenty-first century, Glasgow is still a city living down a fearsome reputation for crime. And for some citizens of the Dear Green Place, brawling is in the blood and gang warfare is a way of life. The stinking deprivation of the Gorbals and the East End, deprivation that helped spawn pre-war gangs like the Billy Boys, the Norman Conks and the Redskins, is largely gone, but in each era new ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Glasgow's Godfather

    The Astonishing Inside Story of Walter Norval, the City's First Crime Boss

    by Robert Jeffrey ...
    Walter Norval was a man marked by destiny to be a career criminal in one of Britain's hardest cities. As a boy he grew up in a world of illegal betting, violent canal bank pitch-and-toss schools, sleazy dance halls, brothels and bars where the denizens of the slums in the north side of Glasgow slaked gargantuan thirsts and plotted murder and mayhem. Before he had reached his teens, close relatives ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Glasgow

    by Paul Harrison ...
    Series series Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths
    The criminal cases vividly described by Paul Harrison in this gripping book take the reader on a journey into the dark secret side of Glasgow's long history. The city has been the setting for a series of horrific, bloody, sometimes bizarre incidents over the centuries. From crimes of brutal premeditation to those born of rage or despair, the whole range of human weakness and wickedness is ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Night Song of the Last Tram - A Glasgow Childhood

    by Robert Douglas ...
    This is a wonderfully colourful and deeply poignant memoir of growing up in a 'single end' - one room in a Glasgow tenement - during and immediately after the Second World War. Although young Robert Douglas's life was blighted by the cruel if sporadic presence of his father, it was equally blessed by the love of his mother, Janet. While the story of their life together is in some ways very sad, it ... Read more

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  • The Barlinnie Story

    Riots, death, retribution and redemption in Scotland's infamous prison

    by Robert Jeffrey ...
    Barlinnie is one of the most notorious prisons in the world and for a hundred years it has held Glasgow's toughest and most violent men, swept up from the city streets. Ten men died on its gallows in the infamous Hanging Shed, including serial killer Peter Manuel. It has sparked rooftop protests and cell block riots, and been home to godfathers of crime like Arthur Thompson Snr and Walter Norval. ... Read more

    $7.19 USD