A Book of Scoundrels

This classic text of crime stories and criminal history states: "While murder is wellnigh as old as life, property and the pocket invented theft, late-born among the arts. It was not until avarice had devised many a cunning trick for the protection of wealth, until civilisation had multiplied the forms of portable property, that thieving became a liberal and an elegant profession." Contents: Captain Hind -- Moll Cutpurse and Jonathan Wild -- Ralph Briscoe -- Gilderoy and Sixteen-String Jack -- Thomas Pureney -- Sheppard and Cartouche -- Vaux -- George Barrington -- The Switcher and Gentleman Harry -- Deacon Brodie and Charles Peace -- The Man in the grey suit -- Monsieur l'abbé.