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There was more to wartime London than stiff upper mouth and rousing choruses of 'Move Out the Barrel'. There was crime and a lot of computer in enough time of blackouts, Blitz and bloodshed, which is chronicled within this lively and accessible background. Thieves hunted their prey without concern with reprisal. Many managed under the cover of darkness, appearing when metropolis sank in to the oblivion of its nightly blackout. Others simply struck whenever opportunity offered itself. At the same time when Londoners were pulling together when confronted with terrible adversity, there have been an increasing range of looters, racketeers, terrorists, legal gangs, prostitutes, rapists and murderers stalking the bomb-ravaged, panic-ridden pavements, and this audiobook chronicles the immediate rise of offense throughout this turbulent period. Indeed, wartime London was a criminal's paradise. The number of body being retrieved during the Blitz made it almost impossible for regulators to perform autopsies on all of them. The question soon arose: who have been the victims of bombings, and who possessed simply been murdered? Coinciding with the 70th wedding anniversary of the London Blitz, award-winning offense copy writer Simon Read paints a vibrant picture of what life was really like in 1940s London profiles the crimes of its most notorious perpetrators, like the Blackout Ripper, Chicago Joe, the Elephant Males, and the infamous Rillington Place Murderer, John Reginald Christie. About the author: Simon Read's true offense magazines include Human Game: The True History of the 'Great Escape' Murders and the Hunt for the Gestapo Gunmen; Warfare of Worlds; The Blackout Murders and On the House: The Bizarre Killing of Michael Malloy.
