Playboys and Mayfair Men: Crime, Class, Masculinity, and Fascism in 1930s London

by Angus McLaren

Book Overview

The shocking true story of a diamond theft gone wrong.

In December 1937, four respectable young men in their twenties, all products of elite English public schools, conspired to lure to the luxurious Hyde Park Hotel a representative of Cartier, the renowned jewelry firm. There, the "Mayfair men" brutally bludgeoned diamond salesman Etienne Bellenger and made off with eight rings that today would be worth approximately half a million...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421423472
• ISBN13: 9781421423470
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.0"