When The Gangs Came to London (1932)

Excerpt

All this began on the day in 1929 when ‘Kerky’ Smith met his backer in the Beach View Cafe and put up a proposition.  This was at the time when Big Bill was lording it in Chicago, and everything was wide open and the safe-deposit boxes were bursting with grands.  But to cut into the history of these remarkable happenings the historian would probably choose the adventures of a lady in search of a job.