Publisher's Synopsis
In this colourful history of the wild world of crime reporting since 1700, Duncan Campbell goes behind the scenes to show how the phone hacking scandal is nothing new in fact, it is part of our great British news heritage. Revealing what it's really like to deal with murderers, gangsters, robbers, cat burglars, victims, informers and detectives, Campbell draws on 40 years of experience to explore the dark arts of journalism, as the relationships between the press, public, police and criminals, and their impact on society, are being questioned as never before.
