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,
“... African Government is complete and damning. The following questions are asked on the jacket of Dr Edward Smithies’s book. What did criminals do during the war? How did they meet the challenges of conscription, the black-out, rationing, austerity? How did the Police cope? Understaffed but overburdened with work? What happened to juvenile ... ”
