London Review of Crooks
Robert Marshall-Andrews, 15 July 1982
Rough Justice: The Extraordinary Truth about Charles Richardson and his Gang
by Robert Parker.
Fontana, 352 pp., £1.95, October 1981,0 00 636354 7 Show More
by Robert Parker.
Fontana, 352 pp., £1.95, October 1981,
Web of Corruption: The Story of John Poulson and T. Dan Smith
by Raymond Fitzwalter and David Taylor.
Granada, 282 pp., £12.50, October 1981,0 246 10915 7 Show More
by Raymond Fitzwalter and David Taylor.
Granada, 282 pp., £12.50, October 1981,
Inside Boss: South Africa’s Secret Police
by Gordon Winter.
Penguin, 640 pp., £7.95, October 1981,9780140057515 Show More
by Gordon Winter.
Penguin, 640 pp., £7.95, October 1981,
Crime in Wartime: A Social History of Crime in World War II
by Edward Smithies.
Allen and Unwin, 219 pp., £12.50, January 1982,0 04 364020 6 Show More
by Edward Smithies.
Allen and Unwin, 219 pp., £12.50, January 1982,
“... in how to write about crime need look no further than Web of Corruption, which tells the story of John Poulson and T. Dan Smith. Raymond Fitzwalter and David Taylor took eight years to research and write their analysis of the most far-reaching corruption trial of this century. The opening summary is startling. Of those prosecuted in connection with Poulson ... ”