188 Pages
by
Routledge
188 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1972, Inside the Underworld gives a general picture of the underworld, showing it as it really is, stripped of romanticism and popular misconceptions—a non-stop resistance movement against the forces of law and order, whose ranks include both the weak and the strong, the skilled and the bungling.
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Introduction: Initiation into the Underworld 1. A Looking-glass World 2. A robbery on Tape 3. Apprenticeship to Crime 4. Villains a la Mode 5. The Architects of Organisation 6. Bellmen and Others 7. The Female Touch 8. Creeping Corruption 9. Are Criminals all Tories? 10. The Underworld in Trouble 11. Of Murder and Mayhem 12. Gangsters in Gangland 13. The Busy Monkeys 14. Superstitions Die Hard 15. Laughing to be Bank 16. Christmas – With a Difference 17. All is Human
Biography
Peta Fordham
