Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


“nipper read”

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “nipper read”
Skip side bar filters

  • The Guv'nors

    Ten of Scotland Yard's Greatest Detectives

    by Dick Kirby, Nipper Read ...
    The ten Scotland Yard detectives, featured in The Guvnors, are unique. Such a group of intrepid crime-busters will never exist again. They possessed only the most rudimentary education; none had a degree. Intuition and knowledge of their manor counted for more than DNA and databases. They worked tirelessly in the pursuit of criminals, used informants, worked on hunches and grabbed hold of ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

People who read this also enjoyed

  • Gangland UK

    by Christopher Berry-Dee ...
    It was one of the most brutal killing crusades that Britain has ever seen. Two cruel brothers and their henchmen, synonymous with robbery, torture and bribery, presided over a murderous reign so brutal that Nottingham became forth in the UK's gun crime league. This is just one of the shocking true stories contained in this chilling book.Having delved into the minds of world's most notorious ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • Murder of the Black Museum - The Dark Secrets Behind A Hundred Years of the Most Notorious Crimes in England

    by Gordon Honeycombe ...
    New Scotland Yard, the headquarters of London's Metropolitan Police, houses the notorious Black Museum, a unique collection of exhibits, photographs and other items connected with some of the most famous crimes of the last century. Fifty of those crimes were murders and they are explored in detail in this compelling book. Recently renamed The Crime Museum the author Gordon Honeycombe was given ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • The Real Peaky Blinders

    Billy Kimber, the Birmingham Gang and the Racecourse Wars of the 1920s

    by Carl Chinn ...
    Stylish and dark, the BBC series the ‘Peaky Blinders’ is set in the backstreets of Birmingham after the First World War and tells of the rise to power of Thomas Shelby and his criminal gang. Yet the real stories behind these fictional characters are just as dramatic, bloody and compelling as the TV series.Thomas Shelby’s arch enemy Billy Kimber was in real life a Brummie from Summer Lane. He was a ... Read more

    $8.74 USD

  • Mad Dog - They Shot Me in the Head, They Gave Me Cyanide and They Stabbed Me, But I'm Still Standing

    by Johnny Adair ...
    Johnny Adair was born in the Shankhill Road area of Belfast, Northern Ireland. The youngest of seven children he was raised a Protestant. As a teenager Johnny and his gang would roam the streets looking for Catholics for no other reason then religion and he bears many scars and war wounds from endless street battles. A young Loyalist, Johnny earned his reputation as a paramilitary leader long ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • The Executioners Bible

    by Steve Fielding ...
    "The Executioner's Bible" tells the story of these working-class men who carried out this gruesome profession until its abolition in the late 1960's. Despite often being unassuming and quiet professionals, men like Albert Pierrepoint, William Billington and many other Chief and Assistant executioners made a name for themselves in a world hungry for salacious and gruesome news. Read about the ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • 1888

    London Murders in the Year of the Ripper

    by Peter Stubley ...
    In 1888 Jack the Ripper made the headlines with a series of horrific murders that remain unsolved to this day. But most killers are not shadowy figures stalking the streets with a lust for blood. Many are ordinary citizens driven to the ultimate crime by circumstance, a fit of anger or a desire for revenge. Their crimes, overshadowed by the few, sensational cases, are ignored, forgotten or written ... Read more

    $10.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Strangeways

    A Century of Hangings in Manchester

    by Martin Baggoley ...
    Strangeways Gaol opened in 1868, and replaced the New Bailey Gaol, where public executions had taken place before their abolition that same year. Strangeways was to be a major location of execution for murders commited in the Northwest of England, for the next 100 years. Between 1869 and 1962 exactly 100 people were hanged, several women included in this number. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gangs of Glasgow

    True Crime From the Streets

    by Robert Jeffrey ...
    In the twenty-first century, Glasgow is still a city living down a fearsome reputation for crime. And for some citizens of the Dear Green Place, brawling is in the blood and gang warfare is a way of life. The stinking deprivation of the Gorbals and the East End, deprivation that helped spawn pre-war gangs like the Billy Boys, the Norman Conks and the Redskins, is largely gone, but in each era new ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • Unsolved London Murders

    The 1920s & 1930s

    by Jonathan Oates ...
    The real-life murder mysteries that rocked London between two world wars—from the author of Unsolved Murders of Victorian and Edwardian London.Unsolved crimes have a special fascination, none more so than unsolved murders. The shock of the crime itself and the mystery surrounding it, the fear generated by the awareness a killer on the loose, the insight the cases give into outdated police methods, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Great Train Robbery

    The Untold Story from the Closed Investigation Files

    by Andrew Cook ...
    The Great Train Robbery of 1963 is one of the most infamous crimes in British history. The bulk of the money stolen (equivalent to over £40 million today) has never been recovered, and there has not been a single year since 1963 when one aspect of the crime or its participants has not been featured in the media. Despite the wealth and extent of this coverage, a host of questions have remained ... Read more

    $10.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Bloodiest Year 1972

    British Soldiers in Northern Ireland, in Their Own Words

    by Ken Wharton ...
    'This is good honest history. Soldiers and civilians alike owe the author a debt of gratitude for telling it like it was.' - Patrick Bishop, best-selling author of 3 ParaKen Wharton's latest book on the Northern Ireland Troubles is, as always, written from the perspective of the British soldier. Here he chronicles the worst year of The Troubles - 1972 - a year in which 172 soldiers died as a ... Read more

    $19.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus