![]() ![]() ![]() I figured this and The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime would make for some fun reading. I recently read all the Sherlock Holmes stories, and I was hungry for more-so I was delighted to discover this wicked little anthology from Penguin Classics. American millionaires, watch out! English lords, lock up your paintings! Ladies everywhere, keep an eye on those diamonds! ![]() Raffles, Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford, Simon Carne, Captain Gault, and many other scoundrels and ruffians tried their luck on the other side of the law, and many managed to make a very dishonest living out of it. Forget Sherlock Holmes, if you can-Victorian literature produced some great criminals as well! A. ![]()
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