The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime
Subtitle: Con Artists, Burglars, Rogues, and Scoundrels from the Time of Sherlock Holmes
By: edited with an introduction and notes by Michael Sims.
Contributors: Sims, Michael, 1958-
Series: Penguin Classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780143105664
Copyright date: 2009
Subjects: Criminals -- Fiction; Thieves -- Fiction; Detective and mystery stories, English; Detective and mystery stories, American; English fiction -- 19th century; English fiction -- 20th century; American fiction -- 19th century; American fiction -- 20th century
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Take a trip back to a time when criminals armed themselves with wit rather than with guns, and the pinnacle of crime-fighting technology was represented by Sherlock Holmes's magnifying glass.  Edited by award-winning author and editor Michael Sims, The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime presents, for the first time, the best crime fiction from the gaslight era gathered in a single volume.  All the legendary thieves are present - from Colonel Clay to Get Rich Quick Wallingford - burgling London and Paris, coming New York and Ostend, laughing all the way to the bank.  Also featured are stories by distinguished writers from outside the mystery and detective genres, including Sinclair Lewis, Arnold Bennett, and William Hope Hodgson.
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Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments 000; title: Introduction: Fools and Their Money 000; title: Suggestions for Further Reading 000; title: THE PENGUIN BOOK OF GASLIGHT CRIME; title: Grant Allen (1848¿1899) 000; title: The Episode of the Diamond Links 000; title: H. G.Wells (1866¿1946) 000; title: The Hammerpond Park Burglary 000; title: Guy Boothby (1867¿1905) 000; title: The Duchess of Wiltshire¿s Diamonds 000; title: E.W. Hornung (1866¿1921) 000; title: Nine Points of the Law 000; title: ¿Clifford Ashdown¿ 000; title: R. Austin Freeman (1862¿1943); title: John James Pitcairn (1860¿1936); title: The Foreign Office Despatch 000; title: Robert Barr (1849¿1912) 000; title: The Mystery of the Five Hundred Diamonds 000; title: Arnold Bennett (1867¿1931) 000; title: A Comedy on the Gold Coast 000; title: Maurice Leblanc (1864¿1941) 000; title: Arsène Lupin in Prison 000; title: William Le Queux (1864¿1927) 000; title: The Story of a Secret 000; title: O. Henry (1862¿1910) 000; title: The Chair of Philanthromathematics 000; title: George Randolph Chester (1869¿1924) 000; title: Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford 000; title: R. Austin Freeman (1862¿1943) 000; title: The Brazen Serpent 000; title: Frederick Irving Anderson (1877¿1947) 000; title: Blind Man¿s Buff 000; title: William Hope Hodgson (1877¿1918) 000; title: The Diamond Spy 000; title: Sinclair Lewis (1885¿1951) 000; title: The Willow Walk 000; title: Edgar Wallace (1875¿1932) 000; title: Four Square Jane