Collection: Crime, Gangsters & True Crime Books
📚 Crime, Gangsters & True Crime Books | Organised Crime, Cases & Real Stories
For the reader who says “just one chapter” and ends up three cases deep at 2am.
This collection brings together preloved crime, gangster and true crime books from Dad’s personal library. He collected widely across organised crime, gangland history, policing, investigations, court cases, and the real stories behind criminal networks and the people involved.
You’ll find books here on mafia figures, British gangland, criminal underworlds, police investigations, prison life, and true crime cases that shaped headlines. Some are well known, others more niche, but all come from a genuine collection built over time.
This is one part of our wider Preloved Books collection, where you’ll also find history, war, politics, Irish conflict, film and more.
Real cases. Real stories. No nonsense.
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | John le Carré
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Mad Frank and Sons: Tougher Than the Krays | David Fraser, Patrick Fraser & Beezy Marsh
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Informer: Life in the Shadows as an Undercover Agent | Ron Farebrother & Martin Short
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The Mafia and the Machine: The Story of the Kansas City Mob | Frank R. Hayde
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The Mafia Commission: A History of the Board of Directors of La Cosa Nostra | Andy Petepiece
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I Heard You Paint Houses | Charles Brandt
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