Mad Frank's Britain

Mad Frank's Britain
Author: Frank Fraser
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2012-12-31
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0753546264

Mad Frankie Fraser has become a household name, known to millions as one of London's most notorious gangsters. In Mad Frank's London - his fourth book - Frank continues the shocking stories of his life of crime. Frankie Fraser recalls the good and the bad times, brings the criminals of his acquaintance to life, and guides us through the darker streets of London - as only a born Londoner, and true gangster could.

Mad Frank's Underworld History of Britain

Mad Frank's Underworld History of Britain
Author: Frank Fraser
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 546
Release: 2012-12-31
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0753546280

Sites of gruesome murders, stories of killings, frauds, jewel thefts and treachery are all part of Mad Frankie Fraser's grand tour of Britain's criminal underworld. As one of the most notorious gangsters of the 20th Century, he is perfectly placed to give us the lowdown on crimes from up and down the country, plus his take on crimes he was personally involved in and cases as yet unsolved. Written with crime author James Morton, this is the definitive guide to Britain's many lives of crime.

Mad Frank's Diary

Mad Frank's Diary
Author: Frankie Fraser
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2019-06-06
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0753554046

‘They say I’ve killed 40 people and who am I to disagree? I’ve always liked even numbers.’ Branded the dentist for using pliers to extract the teeth of those who owed money to his boss Charlie Richardson, Frankie Fraser was labelled the most dangerous man in Britain by two Home Secretaries. He is famous for his crimes, many of which have entered gangster folklore. In these diaries, however, originally published when he was 78, Mad Frank delved into areas he had never chosen, or dared, to talk about before. His day-by-day entries record unsolved murders, shoot-outs, crooked coppers, bribery, extortion, wrongful convictions, and even sex in prison. And by contrast, he also opens up with personal memories of growing up in poverty, in London's East End, and the reality of having to steal food to feed the family. Frankie Frasier died in 2014, and this rare True Crime classic is first-hand history at its most compelling.

Mad Frank

Mad Frank
Author: Frankie Fraser
Publisher: Virago Press
Total Pages: 338
Release: 1995-02-16
Genre: Criminals
ISBN: 9780751511376

MAD FRANK is Frankie Fraser's own extraordinary story - the truth about the legendary villain who for fifty years was a key figure in Britain's underworld. A peer of the Krays and the Richardsons, arguably as influential and certainly as dangerous, Fraser has served over 40 years in prisons and mental institutions for his various crimes. MAD FRANK - A man who has been at the cutting edge of crime in this country, and who took the time to sharpen it while he was there.

Mad Frank and Sons

Mad Frank and Sons
Author: David Fraser
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2017
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1509807950

Drawing on exclusive final interviews with Frank, and with unprecedented access to his closest relatives, Mad Frank and Sons follows his rise from a small kid stealing to put food on the table to a feared and respected West End crime lord and head of a legendary gangland family. It includes the story of Frank's beloved sister, Eva, who was a top-class West End shoplifter, and his sons David and Patrick, who reveal in shocking detail the full extent of the family's network and the influences that shaped them. With sawn-off shotguns as toys, the Kray twins as family friends and a mother who urged them as teenagers to 'get out of bed and rob a bleedin' bank', it is little wonder that the Fraser boys were heavily involved in organized crime by the time they were in their twenties. Packed with new information, and featuring some of the most famous names in the London underworld, this is a fascinating slice of gangland history seen through the eyes of Frank Fraser and his two renegade sons.

Mad Frank and Friends

Mad Frank and Friends
Author: Frankie Fraser
Publisher: Sphere
Total Pages: 272
Release: 1998
Genre: Criminals
ISBN: 9780751524659

Since the publication of, Mad Frank, Francis Fraser has become something of a media celebrity. He has conducted tours of the East End, performed one-man shows in Rhyl and Dublin and appeared in films. In this follow-up to the book, he provides further anecdotes of his life in and out of prison.

Bedlam

Bedlam
Author: Catharine Arnold
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2009-08-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1847390005

Originally published: London: Simon & Schuster, 2008.

The Wasp Factory

The Wasp Factory
Author: Iain Banks
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2013-07-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1476750246

The polarizing literary debut by Scottish author Ian Banks, The Wasp Factory is the bizarre, imaginative, disturbing, and darkly comic look into the mind of a child psychopath. Meet Frank Cauldhame. Just sixteen, and unconventional to say the least: Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different and more fundamental reasons than I'd disposed of Blyth, and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda, more or less on a whim. That's my score to date. Three. I haven't killed anybody for years, and don't intend to ever again. It was just a stage I was going through.

Mad as Hell

Mad as Hell
Author: Dominic Sandbrook
Publisher: Anchor
Total Pages: 546
Release: 2012-02-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 1400077249

“I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore!” The words of Howard Beale, the fictional anchorman in 1976’s hit film Network, struck a chord with a generation of Americans. In this colourful new history, Dominic Sandbrook ranges seamlessly over the political, economic, and cultural high (and low) points of American life in the 1970s, exploring the roots of the fears, resentments, cravings, and disappointments we know so well today. From Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan to Anita Bryant and Jerry Falwell, he shows how the 1970s saw the emergence of a new right-wing populism, setting the stage for the bitter partisanship and near-total cynicism of our modern political landscape.

Mad Frank's London

Mad Frank's London
Author: Frankie Fraser
Publisher: Virgin Books Limited
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2002
Genre: Crime
ISBN: 9780753507148

LONDON'S MOST NOTORIOUS GANGSTERS, NOW BRINGS US STORIES OF KILLINGS , FRAUDS, JEWEL THEFTS AND TREACHERY, AND MEMORIES OF GANGSTERS LONG, AND NOT SO LONG, DEAD, FROM ALL CORNERS OF THE NATION - NOT TO MENTION A BRIEF STOPOVER IN DUBLIN.WITH HIS UNIQUE PERSPECTIVE ON BRITAIN'S UNDERWORLD AND THE JUSTICE SYSTEM, FRANKIE GIVES US THE LOWDOWN ON ALL MANNER - AND MANORS - OF CRIMES, FROM GLASGOW AND THE BIBLE JOHN KILLER, VIA NEWCASTLE AND THE SIBBETT MURDER, MANCHESTER'S DOUBLE-MURDERER, WALTER ROWLAND AND ON TO MARGATE AND THE SOUTH, WHERE WE ENCOUNTER SIDNEY FOX, CONFICENCE TRICKSTER. WE ALSO GET FRANKIE'S TAKE ON CRIMES HE WAS PERSONALLY INVOLVED IN AND ON CASES AS YET UNSOLVED.