Best of
True-Crime
1971
The Twelfth of August: Biography of "Walking Tall" Sheriff Buford Pusser
W.R. Morris - 1971
To Encourage the Others
David A. Yallop - 1971
In the course of what the national press were to describe as 'a Chicago-style gun battle', P.C. Sidney Miles was shot between the eyes and died.16-year-old Christopher Craig and 19-year-old Derek Bentley were subsequently arrested and sent to trial. They came to personify the disaffected youth of post-war Britain, but Derek Bentley became much more. His story and ultimate fate are unique annals of criminal history.Originally published in 1971 and the subject of a BAFTA nominated television play by the author. This book and the evidence it contains twice forced Governments to reopen a murder case long closed it finally led in July 1993 to the granting of a posthumous Royal pardon to Derek Bentley.
Who Killed Hanratty?: An Investigation Into the Notorious A6 Murder
Paul Foote - 1971
Violence and the Police: A Sociological Study of Law, Custom and Morality
William A. Westley - 1971
Book by Westley, W.A.
