Angus Mclaren

Playboys and Mayfair Men (eBook, ePUB)

Crime, Class, Masculinity, and Fascism in 1930s London

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The shocking true story of a diamond theft gone wrong offers a fascinating glimpse at the cultural currents of 1930s London. In December 1937, four young men, all products of elite English schools, lured a Cartier diamond salesman to the luxurious Hyde Park Hotel. There, the "Mayfair men" brutally bludgeoned the man and made off with eight rings that today would be worth approximately half a million pounds. The press had a field day with the story, playing to the public's insatiable appetite for news about upper-crust rowdies and their unsavory pasts. InPlayboys and Mayfair Men, Angus McLaren recounts the violent robbery and sensational trial that followed. Using the case to explore the world of interwar London, he sheds light on key social issues, from masculinity and cultural decadence to broader anxieties about moral decay. In his gripping depiction of Mayfair's celebrity high life, McLaren describes the crime in detail, as well as the police investigation, the suspects, their trial, and the aftermath of their convictions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781421423487
• Artikelnr.: 50521957

Autorenporträt

Angus McLaren is emeritus professor of history at the University of Victoria. He is the author of Sexual Blackmail: A Modern History, Impotence: A Cultural History, and A Prescription for Murder: The Victorian Serial Killings of Dr. Thomas Neill Cream.

Inhaltsangabe

convincingly links disparate issues such as divorce reform, corporal
punishment, effeminacy, and fascism.
The trial is fascinating, not simply because of its four young louts but
because it revealed for the first time in the media troubling aspects of
British society which had escaped serious scrutiny. An original and
exciting cultural history of 1930s Britain, this innovative book and the
exploits of its dissolute playboys will appeal to true-crime readers and
historians alike.