Napoleon of Crime

The Life and Times of Adam Worth, Master Thief

Ben Macintyre

400 páginas2011Crown/ArchetypeInglés

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The Victorian era's most infamous thief, Adam Worth was the original Napoleon of crime. 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" Charley, a jewel thief, train robber, and playboy, and "the Scratch" Becker, 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 tour into the gaslit underworld of the last century. . . and into the doomed genius of a criminal mastermind.

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  • españolEdiciones BISBN 97884406798711999
  • inglésCrown/ArchetypeISBN 97803078864602011
  • inglésBroadway BooksISBN 97812990446302011
  • inglésDeltaISBN 97803853199351998
  • inglésHarperCollins PublishersISBN 97800025582421997
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