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  • Bible John's Secret Daughter

    Murder, Drugs and a Mother's Secret Heartbreak

    by David Leslie ...
    There was one partner the pretty young women who danced away the 1960s in Glasgow's Barrowlands were desperate to avoid: Bible John, so named because he quoted scripture to his victims. He was being hunted for three brutal unsolved sex murders, and each of his victims had been picked up after a night at the famous dance hall.Police were still investigating the first terrifying murder when Hannah ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • The Gangster's Wife

    An Empire Built on Cards

    by David Leslie ...
    For almost four decades, Margaret 'Mags' McGraw was a keeper of secrets. Her husband, Tam, the notorious 'Licensee', amassed a fortune by leading a safe-cracking gang before masterminding a spectacular £50-million drugs racket.Mags was a devotee of Tarot cards and fortune telling, so when Tam and his associates wondered whether luck would be with them, it was to her that they turned. But Mags ... Read more

    $9.69 USD

  • Crimelord: The Licensee

    The True Story of Tam McGraw

    by David Leslie ...
    Crimelord is the gripping life story of elusive multimillionaire gangster Tam McGraw. A notorious criminal kingpin, McGraw has risen from extreme poverty in the East End of Glasgow to become one of Scotland's wealthiest men.When hash started to flood into Scotland from the late 1980s onwards, suspicion centred on McGraw, leader of the infamous Barlanark Team. After a two-year surveillance ... Read more

    $9.69 USD

  • Launched Into Eternity

    Crime and Punishment, Hitmen and Hangmen

    by David Leslie ...
    When the crowd gathered to see the hangman launching teenager Robert Smith into eternity on a wet Tuesday in 1868, it was the last time this public spectacle would be witnessed in Scotland. Smith's crime was heinous, his public punishment brutal. And, finally, it was the end of a tragic public theatre which had drawn eager, baying crowds for more than a thousand years.Launched Into Eternity is a ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • Mummy, Take Me Home

    A Mother's Tug-of-Love Torment

    by David Leslie ...
    'Mummy, take me home,' sobbed little Jasmine Chapman as she was ripped from her mother's arms. But there was nothing that Morag could do . . . except continue to fight for custody of the child she loved so much.When their relationship ended, Jasmine's parents argued bitterly about her future. But they were unable to come to an amicable agreement, and a UK court ruled that the case be heard in the ... Read more

    $9.69 USD

  • The Hate Factory

    Thirty Years Inside with the UK's Most Notorious Villains

    by David Leslie ...
    Convicted murderer Billy Ferris has endured more than three decades behind bars in many of Britain's prisons. In The Hate Factory, he candidly documents his experiences in jail with some of the UK's most notorious criminals.Jailed for life in 1977 for a crime of passion, Ferris experienced betrayal and treachery on the inside. He unexpectedly formed friendships that led to his being labelled a ... Read more

    $17.69 USD

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    Banged Up!

    Doing Time in Britain's Toughest Jails

    by David Leslie ...
    Narrated by Colin Mace ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 34 min

    The wartime double agent with a transmitter in his cell to contact suffragettes; the doctor hanged as he smiled to the farewells of lovers on the scaffold; the con who defied a gangland godfather and escaped the bromide in the prison tea; aristocrats and arsonists...The screws who guard Britain's prisons have seen them all. Stir! is the story of six of the country's most notorious jails - Durham, ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • The Happy Dust Gang

    How Sex, Scandal and Deceit Founded a Drugs Empire

    by David Leslie ...
    Charlie, snow, toot, white: cocaine goes by many different names. But in Glasgow in the early 1980s, they called it Happy Dust.At no-holds-barred parties of the glamorous and wealthy, cocaine was the new aphrodisiac. A few lines of Charlie and a humdrum party could become an orgy.Hot from the forests of Colombia, Charlie flooded onto the streets of Glasgow and was passed along the line to the ... Read more

    $9.69 USD

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    Lighting Candles

    A Paramilitary's War with Death, Drugs and Demons

    by David Leslie ...
    Narrated by Ruairi Conaghan ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 24 min

    When Manny McDonnell was twelve, he awoke to discover British troops surrounding his home in the toughest area of trouble-torn Belfast. Internment had begun and, encouraged by a fiercely Republican mother, he took to the streets with other school kids, throwing bricks, bottles and petrol bombs at soldiers. Jailed at fifteen for having IRA links, he became a unit commander leading deadly missions ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Tourism Enterprise

    Developments, Management and Sustainability

    by David Leslie ...
    The environmental quality and popularity of any tourist destination is the outcome of sustained development, shaped by the socio-economic and physical dimensions of the local environment. Protecting the ‘living landscape’ requires recognizing, promoting and developing the links between economic, social and environmental objectives. This book therefore examines the tourism business in terms of ... Read more

    $45.69 USD

  • International Cultural Tourism

    by David Leslie, Marianna Sigala ...
    International Cultural Tourism: management, implications and cases provides a comprehensive exploration of the management, operations and marketing of cultural tourism attractions and resources in a global context.Topics explored include:* For the first time, an evaluation of the use and transformational impact of global media and new ICT in the management and marketing of cultural tourism ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Primeval Forces

    You, Me and the Creature Within Us

    by David Leslie ...
    When one of our ancient forebears Little Lucy, died on the banks of an African river, to be preserved in its alluvial mud and discovered aeons later, did anyone mourn her passing? Did some hair-covered male hold her hand, perhaps shed a tear as she took her last breath, or did her group just wander off about their business, leaving her to die alone? Had she been a lover, a wife of one man only, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD