Author : Frank Fraser
Publisher : Random House
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 18,94 MB
Release : 2012-12-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0753546264
Mad Frankie Fraser has become a household name, known to millions as one of London's most notorious gangsters. In Mad Frank's London - his fourth book - Frank continues the shocking stories of his life of crime. Frankie Fraser recalls the good and the bad times, brings the criminals of his acquaintance to life, and guides us through the darker streets of London - as only a born Londoner, and true gangster could.
Author : Frankie Fraser
Publisher : Random House
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 39,64 MB
Release : 2019-06-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0753554046
‘They say I’ve killed 40 people and who am I to disagree? I’ve always liked even numbers.’ Branded the dentist for using pliers to extract the teeth of those who owed money to his boss Charlie Richardson, Frankie Fraser was labelled the most dangerous man in Britain by two Home Secretaries. He is famous for his crimes, many of which have entered gangster folklore. In these diaries, however, originally published when he was 78, Mad Frank delved into areas he had never chosen, or dared, to talk about before. His day-by-day entries record unsolved murders, shoot-outs, crooked coppers, bribery, extortion, wrongful convictions, and even sex in prison. And by contrast, he also opens up with personal memories of growing up in poverty, in London's East End, and the reality of having to steal food to feed the family. Frankie Frasier died in 2014, and this rare True Crime classic is first-hand history at its most compelling.
Author : David Fraser
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 16,8 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1509807950
Drawing on exclusive final interviews with Frank, and with unprecedented access to his closest relatives, Mad Frank and Sons follows his rise from a small kid stealing to put food on the table to a feared and respected West End crime lord and head of a legendary gangland family. It includes the story of Frank's beloved sister, Eva, who was a top-class West End shoplifter, and his sons David and Patrick, who reveal in shocking detail the full extent of the family's network and the influences that shaped them. With sawn-off shotguns as toys, the Kray twins as family friends and a mother who urged them as teenagers to 'get out of bed and rob a bleedin' bank', it is little wonder that the Fraser boys were heavily involved in organized crime by the time they were in their twenties. Packed with new information, and featuring some of the most famous names in the London underworld, this is a fascinating slice of gangland history seen through the eyes of Frank Fraser and his two renegade sons.
Author : Frankie Fraser
Publisher : Virago Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 23,81 MB
Release : 1995-02-16
Category : Criminals
ISBN : 9780751511376
MAD FRANK is Frankie Fraser's own extraordinary story - the truth about the legendary villain who for fifty years was a key figure in Britain's underworld. A peer of the Krays and the Richardsons, arguably as influential and certainly as dangerous, Fraser has served over 40 years in prisons and mental institutions for his various crimes. MAD FRANK - A man who has been at the cutting edge of crime in this country, and who took the time to sharpen it while he was there.
Author : Frank Fraser
Publisher : Random House
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 28,34 MB
Release : 2012-12-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0753546280
Sites of gruesome murders, stories of killings, frauds, jewel thefts and treachery are all part of Mad Frankie Fraser's grand tour of Britain's criminal underworld. As one of the most notorious gangsters of the 20th Century, he is perfectly placed to give us the lowdown on crimes from up and down the country, plus his take on crimes he was personally involved in and cases as yet unsolved. Written with crime author James Morton, this is the definitive guide to Britain's many lives of crime.
Author : Marilyn Wisbey
Publisher : Little Brown Uk
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 26,81 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780751529753
Easy to read, funny and shocking, Marilyn will tell what it is like to be a woman in a male dominated underworld - the rules, the taboos, the glamour, the inside secrets, the sex and the scandal.
Author : Seamus Murphy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,69 MB
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0429845014
This book is a study of the British casino industry and how it has been shaped by criminality, prohibition, regulation and liberalization since the beginning of the First World War. The reader will gain a detailed knowledge of the history, culture, identity and participants within the British casino industry, which has, to date, escaped the attention of a dedicated historical and criminological investigation. This monograph fills this gap in inquiry while drawing on primary source material that has not been used previously, including, but not confined to, records in the National Archives relating to the Gaming Board of Great Britain and the Metropolitan Police. In addition to archive material, oral histories, newspapers, published journals and books have been utilised and referenced where appropriate. Envisaged to close a gap in historical research, this book will be of interest to historians, criminologists, regulators, students and individuals interested in gambling, society and cultural history.
Author : Pauline Butcher
Publisher : Plexus Publishing
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 42,71 MB
Release : 2023-09-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0859657159
This new, completely revised and updated edition contains a wealth of new material, excerpts from the author's diaries and private letters home about life in Hollywood. In 1967, 21-year-old Pauline Butcher was working for a London secretarial agency when a call came through from a Mr Frank Zappa asking for a typist.The assignment would change her life forever. For three years, Pauline served as Zappa's PA, moving with him, his family and the Mothers of Invention, to a log cabin in Laurel Canyon in the Hollywood Hills, where the 'straight' young English girl mixed with Oscar winners and rock royalty. Freak Out! is the captivating story of a naive young English girl thrust into the mad world of a musical legend as well as the most intimate portrait of Frank Zappa ever written.
Author : Frankie Fraser
Publisher : Virgin Books Limited
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 36,13 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Crime
ISBN : 9780753507148
LONDON'S MOST NOTORIOUS GANGSTERS, NOW BRINGS US STORIES OF KILLINGS , FRAUDS, JEWEL THEFTS AND TREACHERY, AND MEMORIES OF GANGSTERS LONG, AND NOT SO LONG, DEAD, FROM ALL CORNERS OF THE NATION - NOT TO MENTION A BRIEF STOPOVER IN DUBLIN.WITH HIS UNIQUE PERSPECTIVE ON BRITAIN'S UNDERWORLD AND THE JUSTICE SYSTEM, FRANKIE GIVES US THE LOWDOWN ON ALL MANNER - AND MANORS - OF CRIMES, FROM GLASGOW AND THE BIBLE JOHN KILLER, VIA NEWCASTLE AND THE SIBBETT MURDER, MANCHESTER'S DOUBLE-MURDERER, WALTER ROWLAND AND ON TO MARGATE AND THE SOUTH, WHERE WE ENCOUNTER SIDNEY FOX, CONFICENCE TRICKSTER. WE ALSO GET FRANKIE'S TAKE ON CRIMES HE WAS PERSONALLY INVOLVED IN AND ON CASES AS YET UNSOLVED.
Author : Holly Jackson
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 28,91 MB
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1984896385
THE MUST-READ MULTIMILLION BESTSELLING MYSTERY SERIES—COMING SOON TO NETFLIX! • This is the story about an investigation turned obsession, full of twists and turns and with an ending you'll never expect. Everyone in Fairview knows the story. Pretty and popular high school senior Andie Bell was murdered by her boyfriend, Sal Singh, who then killed himself. It was all anyone could talk about. And five years later, Pip sees how the tragedy still haunts her town. But she can't shake the feeling that there was more to what happened that day. She knew Sal when she was a child, and he was always so kind to her. How could he possibly have been a killer? Now a senior herself, Pip decides to reexamine the closed case for her final project, at first just to cast doubt on the original investigation. But soon she discovers a trail of dark secrets that might actually prove Sal innocent . . . and the line between past and present begins to blur. Someone in Fairview doesn't want Pip digging around for answers, and now her own life might be in danger. And don't miss the sequel, Good Girl, Bad Blood! "The perfect nail-biting mystery." —Natasha Preston, #1 New York Times bestselling author
