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Six Ventures in Villainy: with frontispiece and 6 pages of half-tone illustrations
by Jack Smith-Hughes
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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About This Item
First Edition (UK).
227 p.; ill. Black cloth hardcover shows minor edgewear and slight bumping, a small mark to foredge, and slightly shaken, but otherwise tightly bound in Fine condition with clear illustrations (see list of illustrations). Price-clipped dust jacket shows moderate wear, including closed tears and some minor chipping, but is housed in a removable protective sleeve to prevent further wear.
From dust jacket:
"The eight studies in his new volume are frequently gruesome. Ghouls will have their fill of the macabre. Nevertheless, horror has not been the aim. Every case Mr. Smith-Hughes selects—with an exploration of the surrounding human circumstances —has some special interest from the point of view of justice. His chief interest is for minds not depraved, but enlightened" —Liverpool Daily Post.
Mr. Smith-Hughes has proved his ability to wear the mantle of the late William Roughead with his previous books Unfair Comment and Eight Studies in Justice. His new collection of criminals is selected from the robust days of George III, and comprises two ventures in kidnapping, two pursuits of lechery and two examples of the results of cupidity. The first group includes the case of an ex-member of Parliament who had his wife seized in the middle of Oxford Street and carried off to the Pennines; the second group provides an account of Lord Baltimore's alleged rape of a puritan millineress in his efforts to stock the harem he had built in his ancestral home at Epsom; the third tells of a carefully planned attempt at committing the perfect murder, a murder which, though it took place in 1805, might well supply the plot of a modern detective story.
The author has delved deeply into criminal records and contemporary reports. He informs the reader of all the circumstances surrounding each case and sketches in all the principal protagonists before reconstructing the crimes, which in all too many cases, it is to be feared, did not reap their true deserts.
Table of Contents
VENTURES IN CUPIDITY
Lord Cochrane's Uncle Andrew or a Gloss on Whiggish Dogma (the Stock Exchange Fraud, 1814)
Dissolution of Partnership or a Shot in the Dark (Richard Patch, 1805)
VENTURES IN KIDNAPPING
MacArthur's Sheep or the Reluctant Mutineer (Major George Johnston, 1811)
The Field of Dishonour or Captain Donellan's Friends (Andrew Stoney Bowes, 1786)
VENTURES IN LECHERY
The Field of Honour or Noblesse Oblige (the Earl of Kingston, 1797)
The Peer and the Puritan Maid or Seraglio in Surrey (Lord Baltimore, 1768)
227 p.; ill. Black cloth hardcover shows minor edgewear and slight bumping, a small mark to foredge, and slightly shaken, but otherwise tightly bound in Fine condition with clear illustrations (see list of illustrations). Price-clipped dust jacket shows moderate wear, including closed tears and some minor chipping, but is housed in a removable protective sleeve to prevent further wear.
From dust jacket:
"The eight studies in his new volume are frequently gruesome. Ghouls will have their fill of the macabre. Nevertheless, horror has not been the aim. Every case Mr. Smith-Hughes selects—with an exploration of the surrounding human circumstances —has some special interest from the point of view of justice. His chief interest is for minds not depraved, but enlightened" —Liverpool Daily Post.
Mr. Smith-Hughes has proved his ability to wear the mantle of the late William Roughead with his previous books Unfair Comment and Eight Studies in Justice. His new collection of criminals is selected from the robust days of George III, and comprises two ventures in kidnapping, two pursuits of lechery and two examples of the results of cupidity. The first group includes the case of an ex-member of Parliament who had his wife seized in the middle of Oxford Street and carried off to the Pennines; the second group provides an account of Lord Baltimore's alleged rape of a puritan millineress in his efforts to stock the harem he had built in his ancestral home at Epsom; the third tells of a carefully planned attempt at committing the perfect murder, a murder which, though it took place in 1805, might well supply the plot of a modern detective story.
The author has delved deeply into criminal records and contemporary reports. He informs the reader of all the circumstances surrounding each case and sketches in all the principal protagonists before reconstructing the crimes, which in all too many cases, it is to be feared, did not reap their true deserts.
Table of Contents
VENTURES IN CUPIDITY
Lord Cochrane's Uncle Andrew or a Gloss on Whiggish Dogma (the Stock Exchange Fraud, 1814)
Dissolution of Partnership or a Shot in the Dark (Richard Patch, 1805)
VENTURES IN KIDNAPPING
MacArthur's Sheep or the Reluctant Mutineer (Major George Johnston, 1811)
The Field of Dishonour or Captain Donellan's Friends (Andrew Stoney Bowes, 1786)
VENTURES IN LECHERY
The Field of Honour or Noblesse Oblige (the Earl of Kingston, 1797)
The Peer and the Puritan Maid or Seraglio in Surrey (Lord Baltimore, 1768)
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- The Mortuary Korps
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000196
- Title
- Six Ventures in Villainy
- Author
- Jack Smith-Hughes
- Illustrator
- [various]
- Format/Binding
- Cloth hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition (UK)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Cassel & Company
- Place of Publication
- London, England, U.K.
- Date Published
- 1955
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Criminals; Great Britain; Biography; UK; English; justice; barrister; case study; historical crime; murder; kidnapping; rape; evidence; investigation; detective; macabre; horror; Georgian
- Bookseller catalogs
- True Crime; Horror; Mystery; Biography / Autobiography; Politics, Government, & Law; History;
- Size
- 23
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