Book description
I have been called many things - "The Monster Butler",
"The Butler Who Served Death", "The Ladies Man".
In truth I am none of these things. I am Roy Hall. Before I die I want
to tell my story.' Growing up in Glasgow in the 1930s, Roy Archibald
Hall was a natural thief. After moving down to London, Hall - who was
bisexual - became a familiar figure in the capital's glitzy,
underground gay scene. Due to his lucrative criminal career, he led an
extravagant lifestyle. Eventually the law caught up with him and he
was arrested. He spent the majority of the next two decades of his
life in a cell. Upon release from prison in 1975, he returned to
Scotland and found employment with Lady Margaret Hudson, working as a
butler at Kirleton House. David Wright, a former lover from his time
in jail, arrived on the scene and was hired as a gamekeeper. The two
men fell out over the theft of a diamond ring and a vicious argument
ensued. They went on a shooting trip to clear the air...it was a walk
from which Wright would never return. After the killing, Hall moved
back to London where he teamed up with small-time criminal Michael
Kitto. Working again as a butler, he and Kitto then murdered Hall's
new employers, an aged former Labour MP and his wife. But it did not
end there - by the time he was finally arrested, he had carried out
two more brutal murders, including that of his own half-brother.
Considering the nature of his crimes it was obvious that Hall would
never be released. Before he died, however, he decided to set the
record straight and write his memoirs. This honest, harrowing and
chilling book is the result.
Archibald Thomson Hall was born in Glasgow in 1924, He was one
of the most notorious criminals of the 20th century - a conman, jewel
thief and murderer - and spent much of his life in and out of prison.
