The warm, funny and honest autobiography by the much-loved star, best known as Cleopatra in Carry On Cleo, Alma in Coronation Street, and for many leading roles on the West End stage. From leaving home at 13 to live in Soho as a chorus girl, her life has never been conventional. She has shared relationships with both men and women, including rock legend, Billy Fury.
Sixteen key documents held in The National Archives have been selected and faithfully reproduced for a dossier forming a publication of great appeal and usefulness to students and general readers alike.
In Reg Kray: A Man Apart, Reg’s widow Roberta writes frankly about the man she knew so well. Drawing on previously unseen documents, including letters and prison medical and officers’ reports, she describes the problems he faced and overcame,as well as the reactions of the authorities to one of the longest-serving Category A prisoners in the country. Roberta sheds new light on his personality, his conflict with Ron, and his first marriage to Frances. She also details her own relationship with Reg, from their first meeting in 1996 to their marriage in prison, and the trauma of his dying from cancer in October 2000.
The former head of operations in the National Crime Squad, Detective Chief Superintendent Bob Taylor, has an unprecedented 100% detection and conviction record. His cases include a respectable suburban man with a deadly shoe fetish and the cunning and resourceful murderer of Julie Dart, Michael Sams. The author takes us behind the scenes of detecting these and many more intriguing crimes during his distinguished career.
In this extraordinary book, the Knight brothers, Ronnie (formerly married to Barbara Windsor) and John, reveal how they planned and executed Britain’s biggest ever cash robbery, lifting a cool £6 million in 1983 from a supposedly impregnable Security Express depot in Shoreditch. Their co-author is none less than Detective Superintendent Peter Wilton, the cop in charge of the investigation.