Wrong Side of the Law

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<p>Bestselling true crime author Edward Butts presents a rogues gallery of desperadoes whose crimes range from robbery to murder.<br><br></p><p>English bank robbers on the run turn up in Newfoundland. A legendary Nova Scotia detective matches wits with smugglers. In the West the Mounties track down bandits and rustlers. Vancouver police officers hunt down the bank-robbing Hyslop Gang in the 1930s. A decade later the Polka Dot Gang rampages across Southern Ontario. The Newton Brothers Gang, outlaws from Texas, engage in a gunfight with bank guards on the streets of Toronto, and a former Canadian Pacific Railway engineer masterminds a sensational kidnapping in Colorado.<br><br>No matter where the atrocities were committed and no matter what the circumstances, these individuals all had one thing in common: they lived on the wrong side of the law.</p><p></p>

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Edward Butts is the author of several historical true crime books, including<i>The Desperate Ones</i> (shortlisted for the Arthur Ellis Award),<i>Running with Dillinger</i>,<i>Line of Fire</i>, and<i>Murder</i>. He lives in Guelph, Ontario.

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