Inicio > Biografía e historias reales > Historias reales > Crímenes reales > The Wicked Mr Hall - The Memoirs of the Butler Who Loved to Kill
The Wicked Mr Hall - The Memoirs of the Butler Who Loved to Kill

The Wicked Mr Hall - The Memoirs of the Butler Who Loved to Kill

Roy Archibald Hall

15,06 €
IVA incluido
Disponible
Editorial:
Bonnier Books UK Limited
Año de edición:
2015
Materia
Crímenes reales
ISBN:
9781857826838
15,06 €
IVA incluido
Disponible

Selecciona una librería:

  • Librería Samer Atenea
  • Librería Aciertas (Toledo)
  • Kálamo Books
  • Librería Perelló (Valencia)
  • Librería Elías (Asturias)
  • Donde los libros
  • Librería Kolima (Madrid)
  • Librería Proteo (Málaga)

Growing up in Glasgow in the 1930s, Roy Archibald Hall was a natural thief. After moving to London, he became a familiar figure in the capital’s underground gay scene. Due to his lucrative criminal career, he led an extravagant lifestyle - though eventually he was arrested and spent the majority of the next two decades of his life, in a cell. Upon release from prison in 1975, he returned to Scotland and ound employment as a butler. He was joined by David Wright, a former lover from prison, however, after falling out over the theft of a diamond ring they headed out on a shooting trip...and Wright never returned. Hall then moved back to London and teamed up with Michael Kitto. Working again as a butler, he and Kitto murdered his new employers.By the time he was finally arrested, he had carried out two more brutal murders, including that of his own half-brother. Hall would never be released. Before he died, however, he decided to share his story and write his memoirs. This honest , harrowing and chilling book is the result.

Artículos relacionados

  • Decryption of the Donna Lass Code
    Loren L Swearingen
    A Zodiac killer encrypted message on a locally circulated reward poster for the missing Donna Lass was thought to perhaps give some clue to the location of her body.  For the first time, the decrypted messages are published in this book. ...
    Disponible

    68,79 €

  • American Criminal Justice System Inc
    Fred E Eghobor
    The United States is only about 5 percent of the world’s population, but home to 25 per cent of global prisoners. The American criminal justice system presently is broken, and an example of justice run amok. The system has deteriorated to a point whereby innocent people are being imprisoned even with the lack of sufficient evidence. For the real criminals, punishments are often...
    Disponible

    19,16 €

  • Warden Force
    Terry Hodges
    A collection of 12 award-winning short stories concerning the true adventures of California Fish and Game Wardens and the wildlife-destroying outlaws they pursue. Season 7 episodes:Skin-Head Fred - Wardens tangle with a murderous, meth-cooking, game-killing, Neo Nazi.Spreaders - Wardens target a highly intelligent, super-wary commercial lobster pirate.Deadly Intent - An alert w...
    Disponible

    12,00 €

  • Socioeconomic and Legal Implications of Electronic Intrusion
    In the information society, electronic intrusion has become a new form of trespassing often causing significant problems and posing great risks for individuals and businesses. Socioeconomic and Legal Implications of Electronic Intrusion focuses on abusive and illegal practices of penetration in the sphere of private communications. A leading international reference source withi...
  • Murdered Judges of the Twentieth Century
    Susan P. Baker
    Although there have been individual books published about famous murder cases ranging from serial killers, mass murderers and more . . . .'Murdered Judges of the Twentieth Century' is the first collection of its kind. Susan P. Baker started this project because she was concerned with the prevalence of violence in American courthouses in the 1980s and 1990s. She had always thoug...
    Disponible

    21,93 €

  • On Our Way Home
    Dwight Kiefert
    How do you handle the loss of a child? Where do you turn for answers? Death does not have to be a mystery. Join author and father, Dwight Kiefert as he shares his story: the tragic loss of a young son, Matthew, killed by a drunken school bus driver in 1987; and the direction and faith he and his family came to know after their darkest hour. More than 95% of marriages that su er...