MAD FRANK'S BRITAIN

Hardcover. 1st Edn. SIGNED BY JAMES MORTON. Frankie Fraser takes the reader on a tour of the criminal hotspots on the British Isles, from the Isle of Wight to Glasgow. This is Britain as seen from the underworld; the sites of murders, the stories of killings, frauds, jewel thefts and treachery; the memories of gangsters long - and recently - dead. Following 'Mad Frank's London', he casts his net wider, to look at crime sites the length and breadth of the UK. From Glasgow and the Bible John killer, through Newcastle and the Sibbett murder, Manchester and the double murderer Walter Rowland, and on to the Isle of Wight, Frank covers Britain as he takes the reader on a tour of prisons that he spent time in - and those he met inside them. And as crime is no respecter of borders, Frank also visits Dublin. All the while Frank details crimes that he personally knew about; famous crimes that were part of the stories that set Frank on his way; and crimes as yet unsolved, that Frank can shed his own light upon, based on his lifelong experience of crime. From the tragic: the 12yr. old boy sent to Broadmoor for setting fire to a haystack and staying there another 75yrs., to the horrific: a head in Frank's own niece's fridge - a book representing a catalogue of crime committed around the country. Illus., Bibliog. and Index. 268pp. 8vo. h/back. With tipped-in label SIGNED BY JAMES MORTON. As New in dw. A fairly heavy book which may require additional postage if shipped overseas.