The Count of Scotland Yard

The Controversial Life and Cases of DCS Herbert Hannam

Stephen Wade

• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• eBook ISBN:
  9781445681023
• Year: 2018

Bert Hannam was a dapper, charismatic figure in the Scotland Yard of the post-war years. As a young sergeant he made his name in London, and soon became a presence in the world of criminal investigation. When the most dramatic and sensational murders of the mid-fifties came along, he was in the thick of the action, being involved in a variety of controversial trials and enquiries. Hannam also went out as troubleshooter to the shires as well, being involved in the tragic and unsolved murder of Emily Pye, one of a host of horrific 'corner shop murders' of the time. Stephen Wade provides a biography and case book of one of the most compelling lives caught up in the criminal justice system at a time when war and its aftermath turned society inside-out.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Preface
• 1 - True Crime, Bert Hannam and the New Detectives
• 2 - Enter Sergeant Hannam
• 3 - A Confession from the Nick: The Walter Rowland Case, 1946
• 4 - Probing Dollar Rackets, 1947
• 5 - The Teddington Towpath Murders, 1953
• 6 - Conspiracies, 1955
• 7 - Did the Doctor Do It?, 1957
• 8 - Called up North, 1957
• 9 - The Man Himself and in Police History
• 10 - A Summing-up
• Appendix 1: ‘Easing the Passing’: Historical Perspectives
• Appendix 2: Charles Hewett by David Hewett
• Appendix 3: Corner Shop Murders
• Appendix 4: Eastbourne
• Notes and References
• Bibliography and Sources
• Acknowledgements