Boss of Britain's Underworld by Billy Hill.

Publisher: The Naldrett Press Ltd, 1955, London, First Edition.
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Good hardback with no jacket, binding firm, some rubbing, bumping and marks, creasing and small dent/scratch to spine, titles have some fading, no owner inscriptions, light tanning, pages very good, minor marks.
231 pages, illustrated.

Billy Hill (1911–1984) was an English criminal, linked to smuggling, protection rackets and extreme violence. He was one of the foremost perpetrators of organised crime in London from the 1920s through to the 1960s. His gang managed cash robberies and, in a scam, defrauded London's high society of millions at the card tables of John Aspinall's Clermont Club.
Hill committed his first stabbing at age fourteen.
He described his use of the shiv,
"I was always careful to draw my knife down on the face, never across or upwards. Always down. So that if the knife slips you don't cut an artery. After all, chivving is chivving, but cutting an artery is usually murder. Only mugs do murder."
Hill was mentor to twins Ronnie and Reggie Kray, advising them in their early criminal careers.

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