Books written by Neil Root

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  Frenzy!: How the tabloid press turned three evil serial killers into celebrities

  Then he went and saw a welding engineer he knew, Mr Davies, who had obtained some sulphuric acid for him a year earlier, not knowing of course that it was to make two people vanish. Haigh asked Davies to perform the same task again for ...

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  Crossing the Line of Duty: How Corruption, Greed and Sleaze Brought Down the Flying Squad

  Using Metropolitan Police files obtained under Freedom of Information, which have not been accessed since the 1970s, author Neil Root can finally tell the real story of how the Met became systemically corrupt, and how Sir Robert Mark, who ...

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  Gone: The Disappearance of Claudia Lawrence and Her Father's Desperate Search for the Truth

  Another good friend was the pub's landlord at the time, the tall and handsome George Forman, aged forty-two in 2009 and married with one child. Congregated around one end of the bar, talking and sharing jokes with George, it was a place ...

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  The Murder Gang: Fleet Street’s Elite Group of Crime Reporters in the Golden Age of Tabloid Crime

  In turns fascinating, shocking and comical, this tale of true crime, media and social history will have you turning the pages as if they were those newspapers of old.

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  Frenzy!: Heath, Haigh and Christie - The First Great Tabloid Murderers

  This book tells the stories of these three infamous serial killers against the backdrop of the tabloid frenzy that surrounded them.