London's Underworld - Three Centuries of Vice & Crime

Fergus Linnane

First Edition Published 2003

This book is the superbly evocative survey of 300 years of crime in the capital.  Full of vivid detail, the author takes us on a journey of crime and vice.  We follow the ingenious criminals who carried out the first great train robbery in 1854, whilst entering the death trap eighteenth century prisons.  We walk the Victorian London, awash with prostitutes, beggars and thieves.  We see the rise and fall of the interwar racecourse gangs and the battle for control of the West End.