An edition of The Napoleon of Crime (1997)

The Napoleon of crime

the life and times of Adam Worth, the real Moriarty

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The Napoleon of crime
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An edition of The Napoleon of Crime (1997)

The Napoleon of crime

the life and times of Adam Worth, the real Moriarty

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The Victorian era's most infamous thief, Adam Worth was the original Napoleon of crime. Worth learned early that the best way to succeed was to steal. And steal he did. Following a strict code of honor, Worth won the respect of Victorian society. He also aroused its fear by becoming a chilling phantom, mingling undetected with the upper classes, whose valuables he brazenly stole. His most celebrated heist: Gainsborough's grand portrait of the Duchess of Devonshire--ancestor of Diana, Princess of Wales--a painting Worth adored and often slept with for twenty years.With a brilliant gang that included "Piano" Charley, a jewel thief, train robber, and playboy, and "the Scratch" Becker, master forger, Worth secretly ran operations from New York to London, Paris, and South Africa--until betrayal and a Pinkerton man finally brought him down. In a decadent age, Worth was an icon. His biography is a grand tour into the gaslit underworld of the last century. . . and into the doomed genius of a criminal mastermind.

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English
Pages
320

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Cover of: The Napoleon of crime
The Napoleon of crime: the life and times of Adam Worth, master thief
1997, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
in English - 1st American ed., 1st Farrar, Straus and Giroux ed.
Cover of: The Napoleon of crime
The Napoleon of crime: the life and times of Adam Worth, master thief
1997, Farrar, Straus, Giroux
in English - 1st American ed., 1st Farrar, Straus and Giroux ed.
Cover of: The Napoleon of crime
The Napoleon of crime: the life and times of Adam Worth, the real Moriarty
1997, HarperCollins Publishers
in English

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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London

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
364.16/2/092, B
Library of Congress
HV6653.W67 M33 1997

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Pagination
xvi, 320 p. :
Number of pages
320

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Open Library
OL21045723M
ISBN 10
0002558246
OCLC/WorldCat
37745785
Library Thing
83439
Goodreads
1933745

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On a Misty May midnight in a year 1876, three men emerged from a fashionable address in Piccadilly with top hats on their heads, money in their pockets, and burglary, on a grand scale, on their minds.
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