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Don't Call Me a Crook!: A Scotsman's Tale of World Travel, Whisky and Crime

3.5/5 ( ratings)

It is a pity there are getting to be so many places that I can never go back to, but all the same, I do not think it is much fun a man being respectable all his life. Thus begins Don't Call Me a Crook!, a memoir of a 1920s youth thoroughly, noisily and lawlessly lived. Bob Moore, a Glaswegian, was a marine engine, occasional building superintendent and ramblin' man. "I have been round the world seven times, and I have been shipwrecked three times, and I have spent ?100,000" Moore boasts. In Don't Call Me he recounts pitched battles with Chinese bandits, life in gangster-infested Chicago, and decadent orgies aboard a millionaire's yacht.
Don't Call Me a Crook! A Scotsman's Tale of World Travel, Whisky and Crime is a hardboiled-noir memoir. It's picaresque, perverse, and darkly funny. A tribute to one man's triumph over the law, morals and sobriety, it's a lost confession that will be crowned a classic.

Language: English

Pages: 256

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Dissident Books

Release: May 01, 2009

ISBN: 0977378802

ISBN 13: 9780977378807

Don't Call Me a Crook!: A Scotsman's Tale of World Travel, Whisky and Crime

3.5/5 ( ratings)

It is a pity there are getting to be so many places that I can never go back to, but all the same, I do not think it is much fun a man being respectable all his life. Thus begins Don't Call Me a Crook!, a memoir of a 1920s youth thoroughly, noisily and lawlessly lived. Bob Moore, a Glaswegian, was a marine engine, occasional building superintendent and ramblin' man. "I have been round the world seven times, and I have been shipwrecked three times, and I have spent ?100,000" Moore boasts. In Don't Call Me he recounts pitched battles with Chinese bandits, life in gangster-infested Chicago, and decadent orgies aboard a millionaire's yacht.
Don't Call Me a Crook! A Scotsman's Tale of World Travel, Whisky and Crime is a hardboiled-noir memoir. It's picaresque, perverse, and darkly funny. A tribute to one man's triumph over the law, morals and sobriety, it's a lost confession that will be crowned a classic.

Language: English

Pages: 256

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Dissident Books

Release: May 01, 2009

ISBN: 0977378802

ISBN 13: 9780977378807

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