The Real Casino Royale: gangsters in a class of their own - Telegraph

The Real Casino Royale: gangsters in a class of their own - Telegraph: "'It was like robbing Fort Knox and the Bank of England at the same time – just a lot easier,' says Bobby McKew, a former gangster who was involved with one of the most outrageous scams ever perpetrated on London's high society. Over the course of two years in the Sixties, in an elegant Mayfair private members' club, some of the wealthiest people in Britain were swindled out of millions of pounds, thanks to a gambling con known as 'the Big Edge'. Presiding over this audacious scheme was the club's owner, John Aspinall, a social climber and charismatic man about town."