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Adra ConawayThe Napoleon of Crime
The Life and Times of Adam Worth, Master Thief
by Ben MacintyreThe Napoleon of Crime : CLICK HERE
- Release date: July 6, 1998
- Awards: Macavity Award Nominee for Best Nonfiction (1998), Edgar Award Nominee for Best Fact Crime (1998)
- Publisher: Delta
- Format: paperback, 384 pages
- Language: english
- ISBN: 9780385319935 (0385319932)
- Author: Ben Macintyre
- Genres: history, biography, crime, historical, art, victorian
About The Book
He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.
He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city.
He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker… .
— Sherlock Holmes on Professor Moriarty in The Final Problem
The Victorian era’s most infamous thief, Adam Worth was the original Napoleon of crime. Suave, cunning 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, dazzling tour into the gaslit underworld of the last century… and into the doomed genius of a criminal mastermind.
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