Prince of tricksters
Subtitle: the incredible true story of Netley Lucas, gentleman crook
By: Matt Houlbrook
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 442
ISBN-13: 9780226133157
Subjects: Biographers; Criminals; Popular literature; Intellectual life; History and criticism; English Authors; Swindlers and swindling; Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-425) and index.
Table of contents: title: Gambit -- -- Telling stories: crime and confidence after the Great War; title: The aristocrat of crooks --; title: A curious kink in the character -- -- Selling selves: ghosts and life stories; title: The ex-crook who has now taken up the pen --; title: The comic book criminologist --; title: Ghosts and their doings -- -- Bogus biographies: literary scandal and the politics of culture; title: Writing royal lives --; title: The courtier and the con man --; title: Stunts and scandals -- -- Denouement; title: My selves --; title: Cooling out: has the world changed, or have I changed?