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Thomas Duncan Webb (1917–1958) was a British crime reporter at The People. In 1955 Time magazine called him the "greatest crime reporter of our time".

Death
Webb died of heart failure on 8 September 1958, aged 41, in Charing Cross Hospital, Westminster.

In fiction
Norman Knight, a character in the novel The Crooked Sixpence, is based on Webb. The novel was written by journalist Murray Sayle, a former colleague of Webb’s at The People.

Webb appears as a character in the 2019 British gangster film Once Upon a Time in London.

Published works

 * Sailor, You've Had It. W.H. Allen, 1946.
 * Crime Is My Business. Frederick Muller, 1953.
 * Line Up for Crime. Frederick Muller, 1956.