East End Gangland

by JamesMorton (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2000

  $3.30

  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 Chinese drug dealers of the 1920s, the racecourse gangs, the men who ran crime on the docks, and organized prostitution throughout the century to the major drug dealers of today.

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  Paperback
  2003

  $4.25

  In the first book of this omnibus edition, James Morton looks back at the crimes and the criminals that have given the East End its legendary reputation: the Sabini brothers, nicknamed The Italian Mob , whose extortion racket was helped by a close relationship with the police; the fight, in the 1950s, for King of the Underworld between Jack Spot and Billy Hill; the rise and fall of the Krays and many others. In the second book, Morton considers the history of organized crime, from the Italian and American Mafia to the Triads, the Russian mafiya, the Japanese Yakuza and the South American drug cartels. He also examines the role of the Green Gang of Shanghai, that of Rocco perri in Toronto, the Australian razor gangs, new Zealnd's Mongrel Mob, the Dbois family of Montreal and the French Zemour brothers.