![]() ![]() Pearson has discovered two new and unsuspected murders, along with fresh light on the killings of George Cornell and Jack 'the Hat' McVitie. Notorious reveals new facts about the Krays' tortured relationship as identical twins a relationship which helped predestine them to a life of crime a relationship that made them utterly unlike any other major criminals. This is the question Pearson asked himself, and over the past three years he has been re-examining their history, unearthing much previously unknown material, and has come to some fascinating conclusions. And people still refer to them like popular celebrities. Ron's childlike prison paintings fetch more money than those of many well-known artists. Their clothes and memorabilia are sold at auction like religious relics. ![]() ![]() Since then, far from fading with their death, public fascination with the twins has never flagged. Reg followed him five years later, and both of their funerals drew crowds on a scale unknown for film stars, let alone for two departed murderers. After they were jailed in 1969 for thirty years for murder, Pearson's biography The Profession of Violence enjoyed a cult following among the young and was said to be the most popular book in H.M.'s prisons, after the Bible. Ever since the Kray twins invited John Pearson to write their 'official' biography more than forty years ago, he has been obsessed with them. ![]()
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