Mad Frank: Memoirs of a Life of Crime - Frankie Fraser, James Morton

'Mad' Frank Frasier kept cropping up in various books I was reading about crime in London during what can be called the glory days, the 40's through to the 60's. After hearing his named mentioned so many times I looked further into his story. Frank's own biography, Memoirs of a life of crime, is the story of a man who has an incredible past to tell about the life he has led as one of the key figures in the underworld. 'Mad' Frank is a book that takes ...
...in 20's London when life was very hard. He was brought up by two hard working parents living in the Victorian terraces when street fights were commonplace. He tells you that his mother and father were both straight, so he doesn't have any excuses there as to why he stared into a life of crime. He began his criminal career at a very young age by becoming a thief and with the outbreak of the Second World War he claims that 'It was a wonderful time ...

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...popularly known as Frankie or Mad Frank, was firstly the "minder" for 1950's London gangland king Billy Hill and then, in the 1960's, quite literally the hatchet man for the South London brothers Eddie and Charlie Richardson. He wrote this book of reminisces with James Morton and it was first published in 1993. As autobiographies go it follows the standard route of parents, growing up, middle age etc, but of course with one exception: Frankie has ...
...a major portion of this book is about his time spent "doing the 20". Fraser was there at the Battle of Mr Smith's on the night of 7/8 March 1966 where an attempted take-over of one club by another fim ended in a gunfight resulting in the murder Dickie Hart, an ally of the Kray twins. Fraser was tried for the murder but acquitted, although he got 5 years for affray. A year later, together with Eddie and Charlie Richardson and various associates, he ...

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