num_pages: 640
description: Presenting the Hall of Shame! Both entertaining and indiscreet, this dictionary of callous cads introduces a host of wildly colorful characters. Here are assassins and arsonists, hangmen and horse thieves, hell-raisers and highwaymen, not to mention an array of poisoners, quacks, and forgers. Meet Ronald Biggs, one of the participants of the Great Train Robby, and Julie Amiri, a thief who found being detained by policemen...very exciting. There's enough degradation, depravity, and dottiness to delight anyone. A Selection of the Readers Subscription Book Club .
language: English
title: Brewer's Rogues, Villains & Eccentrics
titlecomplete: Brewer's Rogues, Villains & Eccentrics
genres: Biography, Reference, Nonfiction, Humor, Crime, History
ratings_count: 124
publisher: UNKNO