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True Crime Library Bulletin 511

Dick Kirby, ex-Flying Squad, tells Wickstead’s story, in the style with which readers of his many previous books will be familiar: meticulous detail, admiration and respect for those of his former colleagues that deserved it, and none at all for those he deemed corrupt or incompetent or both. There are some good anecdotes and the book is a worthy tribute to a very successful detective

Police History Society

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True Crime Library, Bulletin 505/6

This book is a vivid and fascinating account of policing some of the era’s most serious crimes, written by an experienced, retired police officer.

The Law Society Gazette

I enjoyed Scotland Yard’s Gangbuster, which is a good biography of an enigmatic and controversial copper.

Ripperologist, January 2019 – reviewed by Paul Begg

Dick Kirby is be be congratulated; this book is difficult to put down

London Police Pensioner Magazine

It’s one of those books that every true-crime fan needs to put on their reading list

Britain's Gangland Magazine

The research and knowledge of the author is extraordinary and it is brilliant that
he records all this material before it is lost. If ex-police officers like Dick do not
research and write up this material it will either never be done or at some stage some
author or academic’s work with little understanding of the milieu will become the
orthodoxy. The work is not bedtime reading and will keep your concentration though
for the aficionados there are inevitably repetition of previously written about cases.
This is probably the first book to concentrate on Wickstead and does not shy from
criticism of Bert or his times.

Surrey Constabulary Journal