PLAYBOYS & MAYFAIR MEN: Crime, Class, Masculinity, and Fascism in 1930s London

In December 1937, four respectable young men in their twenties, all products of elite English public schools brutally bludgeoned a diamond salesman and made off with eight rings that today would be worth a half a million pounds. McLaren describes the crime in detail as well as the police investigation, the suspects, and their trial.