Dead Men's Wages by Lilian Pizzichini - ISBN: 9781447271840
Paperback
A family’s dark secrets, revealed: conmen, gangsters, and London’s underworld.

Dead Men's Wages

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  • Paperback

    304 pages

  • Release Date

    1 July 2014

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Summary

Scratch the surface of any family and you will find stories of intrigue, abuse and illegitimacy. It is just that, because of the nature of my grandfather’s business, our secrets are more sinister.

Lilian Pizzichini’s grandfather was a conman who worked with some of London’s most notorious gangsters. Within the pages of this haunting and revealing account of his life, she re-creates, in vivid detail and with remarkable detachment, the world of criminals and corrupt policemen that he do…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781447271840
ISBN-10:144727184X
Author:Lilian Pizzichini
Publisher:Pan Macmillan
Imprint:Picador
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:304
Edition:New edition
Release Date:1 July 2014
Weight:220g
Dimensions:197mm x 127mm x 17mm
About The Author

Lilian Pizzichini

Lillian Pizzichini has worked for the Literary Review and the TLS. She is writer-in-residence at HMP Chelmsford. Her first book, Dead Men’s Wages, won the 2002 Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction.

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