Untold: The Daniel Morgan Murder Exposed
True Crime Investigative Journalism British History Legal History Political Corruption Organized Crime Crime Biography
Untold: The Daniel Morgan Murder Exposed is the definitive insider account of Britain’s most notorious unsolved private-investigator killing. Written by Daniel’s brother Alastair Morgan and investigative journalist Peter Jukes, this 369-page paperback pulls three decades of secret police files, failed court cases and media leaks into one compulsively readable narrative. First published in 2017 by Blink Publishing, the book maps how a 1987 axe-murder in a south-London pub car park spiralled into a labyrinth of police corruption, press pay-offs and corporate espionage that still haunts the Metropolitan Police today.
What makes this copy especially appealing to true-crime collectors is the condition: light exterior scuffing but internally pristine—no inscriptions, no dog-eared pages, no underlining, and a spine that feels factory-fresh. Because the title has never been reprinted in large numbers, clean first-edition paperbacks are already scarce; finding one that sits flat and unmarked is becoming difficult on the secondary market.
Beyond rarity, Untold is the only book that combines Alastair Morgan’s personal archive—private letters, meeting transcripts and family photographs—with Jukes’s courtroom reporting and podcast interview transcripts. The result is a gripping hybrid of memoir and investigation that works equally for criminology students, podcast fans of ‘Untold: the Daniel Morgan Murder’ and readers who followed the 2021 independent panel report. Keywords that surface throughout—Daniel Morgan murder, police corruption, News of the World phone-hacking, Metropolitan Police misconduct—make this volume a continually cited source for journalists, law students and true-crime content creators.
For buyers who want a shelf-ready, search-optimised addition to the modern British-crime canon, this 2017 Blink paperback delivers both the story and the physical quality demanded by collectors.
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