The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime : Con Artists, Burglars, Rogues, and Scoundrels from the Timeof Sherlock Holmes Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize (1983) Some routines are all about

Some routines are all about early-morning exercise and spartan living

In The Richest Man Who Ever Lived

Librarian's note #1: the concept of The Big Four first appeared as weekly short stories very loosely connected in 'The Sketch' in 1924

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The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime : Con Artists, Burglars, Rogues, and Scoundrels from the Timeof Sherlock Holmes Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize (1983) Some routines are all aboutTake 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