

Bestselling true crime author Edward Butts presents a rogues’ gallery of desperadoes whose crimes range from robbery to murder.
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.
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.
- Price: $19.99
- Pages: 224
- Carton Quantity: 56
- Publisher: Dundurn Press
- Imprint: Dundurn Press
- Publication Date: 20th August 2013
- Trim Size: 6 x 9 in
- ISBN: 9781459709522
- Format: Paperback
- BISACs:
TRUE CRIME / Organized Crime
TRUE CRIME / Murder / General
TRUE CRIME / Hoaxes & Deceptions
. . . Edward Butts’ very entertaining Wrong Side of the Law: True Stories of Crime will surprise many readers who didn’t know this peaceful country had such a rich criminal history.- Canadian Lawyer Magazine
Bestselling true crime author Edward Butts presents a rogues’ gallery of desperadoes whose crimes range from robbery to murder.
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.
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.
- Price: $19.99
- Pages: 224
- Carton Quantity: 56
- Publisher: Dundurn Press
- Imprint: Dundurn Press
- Publication Date: 20th August 2013
- Trim Size: 6 x 9 in
- ISBN: 9781459709522
- Format: Paperback
- BISACs:
TRUE CRIME / Organized Crime
TRUE CRIME / Murder / General
TRUE CRIME / Hoaxes & Deceptions
. . . Edward Butts’ very entertaining Wrong Side of the Law: True Stories of Crime will surprise many readers who didn’t know this peaceful country had such a rich criminal history.– Canadian Lawyer Magazine