The Monster Butler: Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer - Softcover

Nicol, Allan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1845023366 ISBN 13: 9781845023362

Verlag: Black and White Publishing, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

Archibald Hall was one of Scotland's most enigmatic criminals. A man of multiple personae, Hall was more widely known as Roy Fontaine, the Monster Butler who murdered five people, including his own brother. After his convictions for murder in both Scotland and England in 1978, and with talk of a film of his life story, Hall took the opportunity to glamourise his past in books and magazines. What can be unravelled from his web of lies, though, is that he began the sinister transformation into Roy Fontaine, the gentleman butler - ready to seduce, steal and deceive - after effecting a more refined accent and studying etiquette and the aristocracy whilst serving his many jail terms. But how does a man go from thief to killer? Was he always destined to be an unfeeling, cold-blooded murderer? Or was he simply a desperate man obsessed with making a fortune by any means? And what could have influenced his bizarre outlook on life? These are the questions Allan Nicol examines in this illuminating new account of 'The Monster Butler'.

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Allan Nicol studied history and law before qualifying as a solicitor in Scotland in 1980. He worked in private practice in Glasgow before joining the Procurator Fiscal service as a prosecutor in the west of Scotland for twelve years. He called at the Scottish Bar in 1993, where he continues to practice.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Black and White Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1845023366
• ISBN 13: 9781845023362
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
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