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Title: Napoleon of Crime: The Extraordinary Story of Adam Worth, the World’s Greatest Modern Criminal
Author: Ben Macintrye
ISBN: 9780374218997
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Published: 1997
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 336
Condition: Used Copy
Publisher : 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” Charlie, a jewel thief, train robber, and playboy, and “the Scratch” Becket, 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 into the doomed genius of a criminal mastermind.
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