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The Most Dangerous Detective: The Outrageous Glen Patrick Hallahan

Steve Bishop

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Description:The Most Dangerous Detective is a sensational expose of crime, sexual intrigue, corruption and Machiavellian politics by former Fleet Street investigative reporter Steve Bishop.It reached number one in the list of Amazon.com’s ebooks in the true organised crime category in November and is now available as a paperback on Amazon.com.With a foreword by former Queensland Premier Mike Ahern, this true story contains the key elements of a whodunnit and a thriller, with complex plots to disentangle.There’s devious and cunning political plotting as Premiers of different eras select crooked police officers as commissioners, supposedly independent inquiries produce the results desired by government and the leading anti-corruption campaigner has his parliamentary career killed off.You’ll travel through three Australian states and the Northern Territory – three gruesome murders in the scorched, red heart of the outback; a miscarriage of justice in the prim and proper city of Adelaide in the 50s; the creation of a luxury brothel empire in Sydney in the swinging sixties; and there’s even a side trip to genteel Eastbourne, in England, to meet a serial lady-killer. But you’ll be spending most of your time in sub-tropical Brisbane with its veranda’d wooden houses on quarter-acre blocks, palms and poincianas, hilltop views and shady valleys, its broad convoluted river and its laid back lifestyle.The result of 25 years’ research and interviews with political leaders, senior police and barristers, The Most Dangerous Detective also charts the awakening of Australians from the naïve innocence of the late 50s through to the cynicism of the 80s.It reveals for the first time the story of the man who rose to become the alleged “organiser”, “planner” and “inspector-general” of the board of directors of Queensland organised crime – the Rat Pack of Glen Patrick Hallahan, Police Commissioner Terry Lewis and detective supremo Tony Murphy.Did Hallahan, who became famous as the ‘ace detective’ who ‘solved’ the Sundown Murders and won the George Medal for bravery send an innocent man to the gallows? Did he execute Jack ‘Bingo’ Cooper who kept his eyes down when talking but kept his ears open and may have learned too much?Did he murder his mistress, the brothel queen who had once lied at a Royal Commission in order to protect him and his colleagues?The Most Dangerous Detective provides the evidence to help answer these questions but this is also a multi-layered story in which two state premiers, three judges and a crime reporter who rose to be an editor are shown to have made decisions or reached conclusions which were at least perverse.The book calls for a posthumous pardon in one murder case and for another murder case to be re-opened.Holding the stage through this story of murders, organised crime, perjury, planted evidence, invented confessions, protection from on high, a major heroin importation, a bank robbery, political corruption, protection rackets and other appalling behaviour is the man who struck fear into even a federal political leader – Glen Patrick Hallahan, the most dangerous detective.Meet memorable characters, such as:Shirley Brifman, who wore the cast-offs from 12 brothers and sisters growing up in country Queensland before becoming Sydney’s richest madame; Col Bennett, a 43-year-old bespectacled barrister who’s prepared to fight with his fists as well as with eloquence; John Milligan, a slightly effeminate former judge’s associate with the IQ of a genius who gets his kicks by becoming a criminal;John Shobbrook, a keen young Narcotics Bureau officer who builds his own surveillance van complete with roof-mounted video camera utilising sophisticated equipment such as bits of old vacuum cleaner; andGunther Bahnemann, double Iron Cross winner and crocodile wrestler, who becomes a successful author from a prison cell.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Most Dangerous Detective: The Outrageous Glen Patrick Hallahan. To get started finding The Most Dangerous Detective: The Outrageous Glen Patrick Hallahan, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 369

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Steve Bishop/CreateSpace

Release: 2012

ISBN: 1480253790

Description: The Most Dangerous Detective is a sensational expose of crime, sexual intrigue, corruption and Machiavellian politics by former Fleet Street investigative reporter Steve Bishop.It reached number one in the list of Amazon.com’s ebooks in the true organised crime category in November and is now available as a paperback on Amazon.com.With a foreword by former Queensland Premier Mike Ahern, this true story contains the key elements of a whodunnit and a thriller, with complex plots to disentangle.There’s devious and cunning political plotting as Premiers of different eras select crooked police officers as commissioners, supposedly independent inquiries produce the results desired by government and the leading anti-corruption campaigner has his parliamentary career killed off.You’ll travel through three Australian states and the Northern Territory – three gruesome murders in the scorched, red heart of the outback; a miscarriage of justice in the prim and proper city of Adelaide in the 50s; the creation of a luxury brothel empire in Sydney in the swinging sixties; and there’s even a side trip to genteel Eastbourne, in England, to meet a serial lady-killer. But you’ll be spending most of your time in sub-tropical Brisbane with its veranda’d wooden houses on quarter-acre blocks, palms and poincianas, hilltop views and shady valleys, its broad convoluted river and its laid back lifestyle.The result of 25 years’ research and interviews with political leaders, senior police and barristers, The Most Dangerous Detective also charts the awakening of Australians from the naïve innocence of the late 50s through to the cynicism of the 80s.It reveals for the first time the story of the man who rose to become the alleged “organiser”, “planner” and “inspector-general” of the board of directors of Queensland organised crime – the Rat Pack of Glen Patrick Hallahan, Police Commissioner Terry Lewis and detective supremo Tony Murphy.Did Hallahan, who became famous as the ‘ace detective’ who ‘solved’ the Sundown Murders and won the George Medal for bravery send an innocent man to the gallows? Did he execute Jack ‘Bingo’ Cooper who kept his eyes down when talking but kept his ears open and may have learned too much?Did he murder his mistress, the brothel queen who had once lied at a Royal Commission in order to protect him and his colleagues?The Most Dangerous Detective provides the evidence to help answer these questions but this is also a multi-layered story in which two state premiers, three judges and a crime reporter who rose to be an editor are shown to have made decisions or reached conclusions which were at least perverse.The book calls for a posthumous pardon in one murder case and for another murder case to be re-opened.Holding the stage through this story of murders, organised crime, perjury, planted evidence, invented confessions, protection from on high, a major heroin importation, a bank robbery, political corruption, protection rackets and other appalling behaviour is the man who struck fear into even a federal political leader – Glen Patrick Hallahan, the most dangerous detective.Meet memorable characters, such as:Shirley Brifman, who wore the cast-offs from 12 brothers and sisters growing up in country Queensland before becoming Sydney’s richest madame; Col Bennett, a 43-year-old bespectacled barrister who’s prepared to fight with his fists as well as with eloquence; John Milligan, a slightly effeminate former judge’s associate with the IQ of a genius who gets his kicks by becoming a criminal;John Shobbrook, a keen young Narcotics Bureau officer who builds his own surveillance van complete with roof-mounted video camera utilising sophisticated equipment such as bits of old vacuum cleaner; andGunther Bahnemann, double Iron Cross winner and crocodile wrestler, who becomes a successful author from a prison cell.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Most Dangerous Detective: The Outrageous Glen Patrick Hallahan. To get started finding The Most Dangerous Detective: The Outrageous Glen Patrick Hallahan, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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