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The Napoleon of Crime: The Extraordinary Story of Adam Worth, the World's Greatest Modern Criminal Hardback - 1997

by Ben Macintrye

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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 century...and into the doomed genius of a criminal mastermind.

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  • Title The Napoleon of Crime: The Extraordinary Story of Adam Worth, the World's Greatest Modern Criminal
  • Author Ben Macintrye
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar Straus Giroux, New York
  • Publication date 1997
  • ISBN 9780374218997 / 0374218994
  • Weight 1.41 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.24 x 6.24 x 1.23 in (23.47 x 15.85 x 3.12 cm)
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Thieves - United States - Biography, Worth, Adam
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 97-520
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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