Wrong Side of the Law
True Stories of Crime
- Publisher
- Dundurn Press
- Initial publish date
- Jul 2013
- Category
- Organized Crime, General, Hoaxes & Deceptions
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781459709522
- Publish Date
- Jul 2013
- List Price
- $19.99
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781459709546
- Publish Date
- Jul 2013
- List Price
- $7.99
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Description
Bestselling true crime author Edward Butts presents a rogues’ gallery of desperadoes whose crimes range from robbery to murder.
English bank robbers on the run turn up in Newfoundland. A legendary Nova Scotia detective matches wits with smugglers. In the West the Mounties track down bandits and rustlers. Vancouver police officers hunt down the bank-robbing Hyslop Gang in the 1930s. A decade later the Polka Dot Gang rampages across Southern Ontario. The Newton Brothers’ Gang, outlaws from Texas, engage in a gunfight with bank guards on the streets of Toronto, and a former Canadian Pacific Railway engineer masterminds a sensational kidnapping in Colorado.
No matter where the atrocities were committed and no matter what the circumstances, these individuals all had one thing in common: they lived on the wrong side of the law.
About the author
Edward Butts is the author of numerous books, including Murder, Line of Fire, Running With Dillinger, True Canadian Unsolved Mysteries, and The Desperate Ones, which was nominated for the Arthur Ellis Award. He lives in Guelph, Ontario.
Editorial Reviews
. . . Edward Butts’ very entertaining Wrong Side of the Law: True Stories of Crime will surprise many readers who didn’t know this peaceful country had such a rich criminal history.
Canadian Lawyer Magazine
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