Charlie Peace: Murder, Mayhem and the Master of Disguise
By Ben Johnson
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Spending his nocturnal hours limping through the dirty streets with villainy on his mind, and impishly disappearing into the industrial smoke that hung over Victorian Sheffield like a perpetual storm cloud, this was a devil who was to write his own place in the folklore of his home town.
Despite his fearsome reputation, this was a devil of flesh and blood. He was just a man, but a man with an unrivalled talent in the dark art of criminality and such was his fame for murder and mayhem, that he was the most wanted man in England for a time.
Tales of burglary, murder, daring escapes, and a truly shocking miscarriage of justice feature in this biography, along with moments of lost love, damaged pride, and violent revenge. It is a story of a man who had turned to crime through necessity, but consciously chose to continue in an ever spiralling life of wickedness.
Once immortalised in Madame Tussaud’s Chamber of Horrors, his gnarled and prematurely aged features would be the last image his victims ever saw, yet ironically, he was known by the name of Peace.
Ben Johnson
Ben Johnson has been a drummer, a delivery driver, a fisherman in Alaska, a night porter for the haunted El Tovar Hotel in the Grand Canyon, a singer, a bartender, a rapper, a busboy, a cook, a percussionist, an actor, a director, a river rafter, an outdoor enthusiast, a teacher, a barback, a student at the infamous St. Anthony's Seminary in Santa Barbara, a beatsmith, and an artist. But never an author. Until now. He lives in San Diego, California with his wife, daughter, and dog.
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