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Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Glasgow
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The criminal cases vividly described by Paul Harrison in this gripping book take the reader on a journey into the dark secret side of Glasgow's long history. The city has been the setting for a series of horrific, bloody, sometimes bizarre incidents over the centuries. From crimes of brutal premeditation to those born of rage or despair, the whole range of human weakness and wickedness is represented here. There are tales of secret passion and betrayal, robbery, murder, gangland violence, executions, and instances of domestic cruelty and malice that ended in death. Among the fascinating and varied selection of cases Paul Harrison covers are an IRA ambush and gun battle, the policeman who murdered his lover, a Wild West-style shootout between police and a desperate robber, a sequence of horrendous serial murders including the case of Bible John, and the extraordinary acquittal of John Mitchell Henderson. The human dramas the author describes are often played out in the most commonplace of circumstances, but others are so odd as to be stranger than fiction. This grisly chronicle of the hidden history of Glasgow will be compelling reading for anyone who is interested in the dark side of human nature.
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Paul Harrison
Paul Harrison is a UK-based writer and editor of fiction and nonfiction books for children.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This book was reasonably well-written and told some interesting true crime stories. Normally such a book would get four stars, but I found myself having to take half a star off because it was REALLY in need of an editor. There were a lot of typos and some sentences were just written wrong, which really distracted me from the narrative. I hope the author publishes a new Kindle edition with all that corrected, because this is actually a good book underneath the mistakes.
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Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Glasgow - Paul Harrison
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