Description The Murders of Boysie Singh , first published in 1962, is a classic for several reasons.
It tells the true but almost unbelievable story of a Trinidadian badjohn who in the 1940s and 1950s was a much reported celebrity of the criminal and legal world.
Believed to have committed scores of murders in his guise as a pirate who dumped would-be migrants from Trinidad to Venezuela overboard to the sharks, he was hanged for just one proven crime, a murder he in fact ma.
Peepal Tree Press The murders of boysie singh: robber, arsonist, pirate, mass-murderer, vice and gambling king of trinidad, paperback/derek bickerton
