The Napoleon of Crime: The Life and Times of Adam Worth, Master Thief Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Napoleon of Crime: The Life and Times of Adam Worth, Master Thief Book

Arthur Conan Doyle fictionalized him as the superhuman Professor Moriarty, and the popular press luridly chronicled his daring heists, though the police never managed to convict him of anything major until he was nearly 50. Forgotten since his 19th-century heyday, master thief Adam Worth (1844-1902) gets a contemporary dusting-off in this cheerfully cynical biography by a British journalist, who sees Worth's story as a case study in Victorian hypocrisy. The colorful New York and London underworlds are as meticulously described as Worth's surprisingly attractive personality.Read More

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  • Product Description

    The author of Forgotten Fatherland presents an unprecedented, often hilarious life of Adam Worth, the most famous safe cracker, bank robber, and art thief of the Victorian Age and the model for Professor Moriarty in the Sherlock Holmes mysteries.

  • 0374218994
  • 9780374218997
  • Ben MacIntyre
  • 1 August 1997
  • Farrar Straus & Giroux (T)
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 336
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