This book reveals the astonishing, known facts about real acts of villainy...and it probes the fascinating, missing facts that confound the law and are kept in a file marked 'unsolved'.




Spies and spymasters have had a crucial role to play ever since man first learned to rage war. This book tells the stories of some of the world's most infamous spies and spy organisations including the Portland spy Ring, the secret of the KGB Sex Spies, Mata Hari and Sidney Reilly - Ace of spies

It's often true that the bad guys are more interesting than the good guys, and this collection offers true stories about great crooks of history, from the brave to the cowardly and from the brutal to the ingenious. This title is part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this looks at famous crooks and conmen. Other titles available include "The World's Greatest Secrets" and "The World's Greatest Crimes of Passion".