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The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime : Con Artists, Burglars, Rogues, and Scoundrels from the Time of Sherlock Holmes - Michael Sims

The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime

Con Artists, Burglars, Rogues, and Scoundrels from the Time of Sherlock Holmes

By: Michael Sims

Paperback | 19 November 2009 | Edition Number 1

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'Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may the more perfectly respect it.' - G. K. Chesterton

Take a trip back to a time when criminals armed themselves with wit rather than with guns, and the pinnacle of crime-fighting technology was represented by Sherlock Holmes's magnifying glass. Edited by award-winning author and editor Michael Sims, The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime presents, for the first time, the best crime fiction from the gaslight era gathered in a single volume. All the legendary thieves are present - from Colonel Clay to Get Rich Quick Wallingford - burgling London and Paris, coming New York and Ostend, laughing all the way to the bank. Also featured are stories by distinguished writers from outside the mystery and detective genres, including Sinclair Lewis, Arnold Bennett, and William Hope Hodgson.

'His conscience was sufficiently elastic to give him no trouble. To him it was scarcely a robbery he was planning, but an artistic trial of skill, in which he pitted his wits and cunning against the forces of society in general.' - Guy Boothby, 'The Duchess of Wiltshire's Diamonds'

About The Author

Michael Sims has edited two other collections for Penguin Classics: The Annotated Archy and Mehitable and Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Thief. His research for the latter inspired The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime. His most recent non-fiction book is Apollo's Fire: A Journey through the Extraordinary Wonders of an Ordinary Day, which National Public Radio chose as one of the Best Science Books of 2007. He is also the author of Adam's Navel: A Natural and Cultural History of the Human Form, which was a New York Times Notable Book and a Library Journal Best Science Book; and Darwin's Orchestra: An Almanac of Nature in History and the Arts. His writing has appeared in New Statesman, Gourmet, Orion, the Washington Post, and many other periodicals in the United States and abroad.
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"Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may the more perfectly respect it."
-G. K. Chesterton

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