East End Gangland

by James Morton and James Morton

Book Overview

The East End crimeworld has always held a malign fascination for the general public. In this book, James Morton looks at this phenomenon from the days of the unsolved murders committed by Jack the Ripper, through the 1960s when the Kray Twins held the reins of the underworld, to the present and the changing structure of crimes and criminal gangs. The book looks not only at the twins but also at the influx of immigrant gangs of the 1900s, the powerful...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316853240
• ISBN13: 9780316853248
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Little Brown & Co
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.8" x 9.0"