Calling Sergeant Crockford
The story of a pioneering policewoman in the 1960s
$35.50
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
17 September 2024
Summary
It’s the dawn of the Swinging Sixties. The Cold War is at its height and support for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament is building. The Berkshire Constabulary’s Detective Gwen Crockford is promoted to Woman Police Sergeant in Newbury, the town at the heart of Britain’s atomic weapons programme.
Gwen’s initial reservations that her posting in rural Berkshire will be boring soon prove to be unfounded. A serial sex attacker on the loose, an attempted murder at Greenham Common US Airfo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781802793703 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1802793704 |
| Author: | Ruth D'Alessandro |
| Publisher: | Headline Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Headline Welbeck Non-Fiction |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 17 September 2024 |
| Weight: | 280g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 126mm x 30mm |
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About The Author
Ruth D'Alessandro
Ruth D’Alessandro is the daughter of police parents and was born and brought up in Shinfield, mid-way between Reading and Wokingham in Berkshire. She studied Modern Arabic at Durham University, and worked for 10 years with Librairie du Liban, the Middle East’s largest reference publisher. After having her daughters, Ruth worked as a freelance educational writer, then built up her business as a commercial digital content writer. Ruth is the author of the Crockford trilogy, telling her mother’s story as a policewoman in 1950s and 1960s Britain.
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