Charlie PeaceCharlie Peace
Murder, Mayhem and the Master of Disguise
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Book, 2016
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Current format, Book, 2016, , Available . Offered in 0 more formatsA devil once lived in God's own county. A grotesque figure with many names and many faces, he could slip into the home of an unsuspecting family with the silent stealth of a cool night time breeze, and leave without a trace.
Spending his nocturnal hours limping through the dirty streets with villainy on his mind, and impishly disappearing into the industrial smoke that hung over Victorian Sheffield like a perpetual storm cloud, this was a devil who was to write his own place in the folklore of his home town.
Despite his fearsome reputation, this was a devil of flesh and blood. He was just a man, but a man with an unrivaled talent in the dark art of criminality and such was his fame for murder and mayhem, that he was the most wanted man in England for a time.
Tales of burglary, murder, daring escapes, and a truly shocking miscarriage of justice feature in this biography, along with moments of lost love, damaged pride, and violent revenge. It is a story of a man who had turned to crime through necessity, but consciously chose to continue in an ever spiraling life of wickedness.
Once immortalized in Madame Tussaud's Chamber of Horrors, his gnarled and prematurely aged features would be the last image his victims ever saw, yet ironically, he was known by the name of Peace.
Spending his nocturnal hours limping through the dirty streets with villainy on his mind, and impishly disappearing into the industrial smoke that hung over Victorian Sheffield like a perpetual storm cloud, this was a devil who was to write his own place in the folklore of his home town.
Despite his fearsome reputation, this was a devil of flesh and blood. He was just a man, but a man with an unrivaled talent in the dark art of criminality and such was his fame for murder and mayhem, that he was the most wanted man in England for a time.
Tales of burglary, murder, daring escapes, and a truly shocking miscarriage of justice feature in this biography, along with moments of lost love, damaged pride, and violent revenge. It is a story of a man who had turned to crime through necessity, but consciously chose to continue in an ever spiraling life of wickedness.
Once immortalized in Madame Tussaud's Chamber of Horrors, his gnarled and prematurely aged features would be the last image his victims ever saw, yet ironically, he was known by the name of Peace.
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- Barnsley, South Yorkshire : True Crime, 2016.
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