The Butler's Story: The extraordinary life and crimes of Archibald Thomson Hall (Murder World: Scotland)

By Steve MacGregor

Archibald Thompson Hall was a complicated man. A bisexual born in the working-class back streets of Glasgow, he craved culture and the finer things in life. Sadly, his life hadn't equipped him with the legitimate means to obtain these so he stole them instead. He worked as a burglar, thief and con-man for many years before stumbling on a role that suited him well - he became a butler to the very wealthy. He also appropriated the names of his favourite movie stars to transform himself into the urbane, charming and imperturbable gentleman's gentleman Roy Fontaine. Working as a butler gave him opportunities to steal and embezzle from his employers, but it also led him to face arrest, conviction and prison on more than one occasion (though he became the first person to escape from one of Britain's first high-security prisons). It wasn't until 1977, when he was fifty-three, that he finally discovered his vocation as a murderer. He committed his first murder in November 1977 and by January the following year he had killed five people and would almost certainly have gone on to kill many more if he hadn't been caught.This is the true story of a charming, charismatic, intelligent, entertaining, cold, ruthless and merciless killer and one of the most dangerous men in the annals of Scottish crime. Murder World: Real crimes, real killers.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1980218587
• ISBN13: 9781980218586
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 107 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"