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Portrait of a Bad Man
by Tom Tullett
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
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About This Item
First Edition.
196, [4] p.; ill.
Vintage black cloth hardcover with gilt lettering to spine shows very mild bumping and some water damage, including bowed boards (see images) but is internally Near Fine with black and white photographic illustrations throughout. Dust jacket has been price-clipped and exhibits minor shelfwear, etc., but is housed in a removable protective sleeve to prevent further wear.
From the dust jacket:
THIS Is the story of Ronald Chesney, international smuggler and murderer, whose sinister tentacles stretched from Britain right across Europe to Tangier, Algiers and the Middle East. The author, was one of the first on the scene at Ealing when the Chesney murders were discovered and he followed the Chesney trail right through Europe to Tangier and Casablanca. He met Chesney's associates and his women friends. He talked to detectives who had tried for years to trap Chesney and obtained a mass of information hitherto unknown.
Smuggling, blackmail and murder came easily to Chesney whose powerful personality, surface charm and daring exploits made him a legend in his lifetime.
When the Scotland Yard Murder Squad began to close in, Chesney shot himself—but the story does not end there. His death left the underworld worried and fear touched many whose lives had crossed that of this larger-than-life adventurer. Fiction holds nothing stranger than this—the fantastic career of a modern buccaneer.
THE AUTHOR
Tom TULLETT is chief of the Sunday Pictorial crime staff and was formerly a reporter on the Sunday Express. He is the only journalist to have been a detective in the C.I.D., during which period he was commended seven times for criminal investigation. During the war, Tullett served with the King's Own Scottish Borderers, was in France in 1940, served with a special unit for mountain warfare and was wounded twice in the famous raid on Walcheren. He became a company commander, took part in the Rhine crossing and fought through Germany to meet the Russians on the Elbe. Since the war he has covered every major crime in this country and many in other parts of the world. Tom Tullett has an intimate knowledge of London's underworld and police work. In addition to being one of the best known crime reporters in Fleet Street, he is also co-author of Sir Bernard Spilsbury.
List of illustrations:
196, [4] p.; ill.
Vintage black cloth hardcover with gilt lettering to spine shows very mild bumping and some water damage, including bowed boards (see images) but is internally Near Fine with black and white photographic illustrations throughout. Dust jacket has been price-clipped and exhibits minor shelfwear, etc., but is housed in a removable protective sleeve to prevent further wear.
From the dust jacket:
THIS Is the story of Ronald Chesney, international smuggler and murderer, whose sinister tentacles stretched from Britain right across Europe to Tangier, Algiers and the Middle East. The author, was one of the first on the scene at Ealing when the Chesney murders were discovered and he followed the Chesney trail right through Europe to Tangier and Casablanca. He met Chesney's associates and his women friends. He talked to detectives who had tried for years to trap Chesney and obtained a mass of information hitherto unknown.
Smuggling, blackmail and murder came easily to Chesney whose powerful personality, surface charm and daring exploits made him a legend in his lifetime.
When the Scotland Yard Murder Squad began to close in, Chesney shot himself—but the story does not end there. His death left the underworld worried and fear touched many whose lives had crossed that of this larger-than-life adventurer. Fiction holds nothing stranger than this—the fantastic career of a modern buccaneer.
THE AUTHOR
Tom TULLETT is chief of the Sunday Pictorial crime staff and was formerly a reporter on the Sunday Express. He is the only journalist to have been a detective in the C.I.D., during which period he was commended seven times for criminal investigation. During the war, Tullett served with the King's Own Scottish Borderers, was in France in 1940, served with a special unit for mountain warfare and was wounded twice in the famous raid on Walcheren. He became a company commander, took part in the Rhine crossing and fought through Germany to meet the Russians on the Elbe. Since the war he has covered every major crime in this country and many in other parts of the world. Tom Tullett has an intimate knowledge of London's underworld and police work. In addition to being one of the best known crime reporters in Fleet Street, he is also co-author of Sir Bernard Spilsbury.
List of illustrations:
Lieutenant-Commander Ronald John Chesney, in Buxtehtide
Portrait of a victim. A marriage picture of Mrs. Bonnar
Mrs. Vera Chesney at Weymouth
Chesney as a civilian when he was in jail in France
Chesney before he grew a beard
Chesney aboard one of the boats he commanded in the early days of the war
Chesney had this photograph taken a few days after he was commissioned in 1940
Typical picture of " Ches " at a mess party
Fires blazing in Tobruk
Gerda Schaller
The Gladys May
Gerda Schaller on the Gladys May in the Mediterranean
Superintendent Percy Law, chief of the Yard Photographic Branch, covering up tyre marks outside the house in Ealing
Thepewter pot Chesney used to attack his mother-in-law
Gerda Schaller follows Chesney's coffin to thegrave
Chesney's grave
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- Bookseller
- The Mortuary Korps
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000192
- Title
- Portrait of a Bad Man
- Author
- Tom Tullett
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Evans Brothers
- Place of Publication
- London, England, U.K.
- Date Published
- 1956
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- John Donald Merrett AKA Ronald John Chesney (1908-1954); biography; true crime; murder; veteran; sociopath; international criminal; smuggling; blackmail; suicide; war; vintage
- Bookseller catalogs
- True Crime; Biography / Autobiography; Politics, Government, & Law; History;
- Size
- 22
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