THE CAMEO CONSPIRACY. The Real Story of the Cameo Cinema Murders

Softcover. SIGNED. Liverpool's notorious Cameo Cinema murder case is one of Britain's legal cause celebres. But for almost half a century the convictions of George Kelly and Charles Connolly have gone unchallenged. Now in this powerfully incisive work, the author painstakingly reveals for the first time the truth of what really happened on that fateful Saturday night in March 1949. Recounting how the two accused men were framed by a corrupt detective and condemned by an immoral legal establishment, it is a story of unbelievable human wickedness, which resulted in the execution of one man and the false imprisonment of another. Not just a classic exposure of a scandalous miscarriage of justice, the book authentically evokes the 1940s atmosphere of the city's pubs, post war rationing, the black market, illicit shebeens. Its portrayal of the colourful characters and villains of Liverpool's "Underworld", also make this a fascinating and compellingly readable book. Profusely Illus. 324pp. trade size softcover. With tipped-in label SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. With a faint paperclip mk. to tp. o/w Nr. F. A scarce edn.