The book is the first authoritative, illustrated, full-length account of
smuggling and related activities in Wirral. Covering the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries, it represents the first book-length account concerning
this important chapter in Wirral's heritage. Not only does it describe familiar
facts in great detail - Mother Redcap and her smugglers' tavern on the Wallasey
shore, the labyrinth of smugglers' tunnels stretching from the Red Noses in New
Brighton throughout Wallasey, and the wreckers who used to prey upon
Liverpool-bound shipping - it also covers the less well-known aspects of
Wirral's piratical past, including smuggling in Parkgate and Heswall, and the
swashbuckling adventures of Captain Fortunatus Wright - the Wallasey privateer.
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