Killers, crooks and cons : Scotland's crimes of the century by McKay, Reg instant download

Killers, crooks and cons : Scotland's crimes of the century by McKay, Reg instant download

1 online resource (473 pages), KILLERS, CROOKS AND CONS chronicles the astonishing crimes that horrified 20th-century Scotland. Taking each decade in turn, Reg McKay tells the true tales of the crimes that shook the nation, often the world. And these crimes will shock you still. From serial killers to armed mobsters and poisoners to cops who killed, KILLERS, CROOKS AND CONS takes you from Glasgow to Edinburgh, Aberdeen to Dundee and from the Highlands to the Borders. As well as well-known cases like the world's first serial killer Peter Manuel who was hanged for the murder of seven people, wealthy landowner Max Garvi, Cover; Title; Dedication; Contents; 1900 to 1909 -- New Century, Old Ways; The Final Insult; Bitter Sweet; Watched and Damned; The Disappearing Act; 1910 to 1919 -- War and Revolution; Avarice and Arsenic; Two for Tea; As Poor as Death; Stabbed in the Back; Deaf to Death; 1920 to 1929 -- Deadly Depression; Twenty-Four Pieces of Silver; Blood Red Rotten Row; The Long Short Walk; Honeytraps and Killer Bs; The Colour of Hate; Just Another Man; Wasted Warnings; 1930 to 1939 -- War on the Streets; Deadly Disgrace; Bread and Blood; The Scalpel Blade Duel; Good for the Soul?, 1940 to 1949 -- The Death Of InnocenceDamned and Damned; The Fiend; A Lonely Place; The Tartan Dahlia; Sex or Slaughter?; Old Allies, New Foes; 1950 to 1959 -- Heroes and Horrors; Heavy Rain in Hell; The Rotter; Babyface Baby ...?; Just Another Night out; The Ghost Who Confessed; Man of the Night; Wasted; 1960 to 1969 -- Swinging; Blood on the Grass; Too Good a Girl; Lethal Lust in a Cold Climate; A Deadly Conceit; Swinging and Killing; A Murderous Misunderstanding; The Gypsies' Gift; Streets of Fear; No Rhyme, No Reason; 1970 to 1979 -- Discos, Drugs and Death; Marx, Mao and Mugs, Baby Babysitter from HellThe Recidivist; No Luck, No Love; The Road North to Hell; One Lonely Man; Walter's Army; No Hiding Place?; Doctor Sweet, Doctor Secret; The Stuff of Nightmares; 1980 to 1989 -- New…