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...case of John George Haigh, who murdered nine people and dissolved their bodies in acid (TIME, Aug. 1, 1949), Webb scored another kind of beat. Haigh had sold the bylined story of his crime for 5,000 pounds to The People's competitor. News of the World. Webb went after Haigh's girl friend, who had adamantly refused all offers to tell her story...
...Webb dated her twice a week for two months, recalls: "I detested every minute of it." But he got her story-for nothing. Last fall he scored another clear triumph by persuading Gangster Billy Hill, undisputed boss of London's vast underworld, to let him ghost Hill's life story ("I am the gangster who runs the underworld"). Shortly after, Gangster Hill vanished from the sight of London police, who want to talk to him about a $100,000 gold robbery...
Subway Interviewer. London-born Reporter Webb was a successful crime reporter from the day he took his first job as a copy boy on Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard. On his way to work the first day he overheard a woman in the subway describe an attempted robbery in which she was the victim, interviewed her on the spot and got a story in the afternoon paper. He has since worked on dailies all over Britain, during World War II found time while serving in the merchant marine to write crime stories whenever he docked in England...
...Webb looks back with professional wistfulness on the crime wave after the war when London had 20,000 military deserters living at the end of their guns. Although London's underworld has quieted down considerably since then, Webb has still uncovered more than enough material to satisfy The People and to fill three books (The Verdict Is Mine, Crime Is My Business and Deadline for Crime...
...fear of his underworld sources drying up. Explains Crime Reporter Webb: "I don't tell police what the villains tell me, and I don't tell the villains what the police tell...