title: North Soho 999: A True Story of Gangs and Gun-Crime in 1940s London
author:  Paul Willetts 
description: 1st trade edition paperback fine condition In stock shipped from our UK warehouse
zlib_text: _Previous Titles in this series by Margaret Duffy_
  
  
  A HANGING MATTER
  
  
  DEAD TROUBLE
  
  
  SO HORRIBLE A PLACE
  
  
  TAINTED GROUND *
  
  
  COBWEB *
  
  
  BLOOD SUBSTITUTE *
  
  
  SOUVENIRS OF MURDER *
  
  
  CORPSE IN WAITING *
  
  
  RAT POISON *
  
  
  _* available from Severn House_
  
  
  ## ONE
  
  
  
  
  
  A couple of weeks after this somewhat unorthodox assistance from the Serious
  Organized Crime Agency to Bath CID, which I have reconstructed from what
  Patrick, my husband, told me, gang warfare erupted in this fragrant World
  Heritage designated city. Predictably, it caused uproar, not least because
  most of the city centre remained cordoned off getting on for twenty-four hours
  later. Shops remained closed, traffic was gridlocked, cars abandoned.
  
  
  The gun battle had started at a little after midnight somewhere near the top
  of Milsom Street, progressed downhill into Union Street and into Abbey
  Churchyard. There, two men were cornered having, it was discovered later, run
  out of ammunition, and killed. Not just shot, but as a pr