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How to Be a Vampire

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   How to Be a Vampire: A Fangs-On Guide for the Newly Undead

   Amy Gray

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Paul McFarland, August 12, 2007 (view all comments by Paul McFarland)
Adam Worth was perhaps the most successful criminal of the Victorian era. He most likely served as a model for the Professor Moriarty of Conan Doyle. This Biography traces the life of a man who changed his identity after being listed as killed at Second Manassas, moved to England and became a master thief. He lived a life of deception and was the mastermind behind most of the large criminal enterprises of the era. The height of his career was lifting Gainsborough?s portrait of the Duchess of Devonshire a distant relation of Princes Di. In what may have been the most unlikely friendship of all times he became close to William Pinkerton the great detective of the age. Perhaps most remarkably he lived his life in the criminal underworld without committing a single crime that involved violence and was never know to carry a firearm.

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Product Details

ISBN:

9780374218997

Subtitle:

(the life and times of Adam Worth, master thief )

Author:

Macintyre, Ben

Publisher:

Farrar, Straus, Giroux

Location:

New York :

Subject:

Great britain

Subject:

Specific Groups - Criminals

Subject:

Historical - British

Subject:

Criminology

Subject:

Crime and criminals

Subject:

Thieves

Subject:

Bank robberies

Subject:

Bank robberies -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.

Series Volume:

25

Publication Date:

1997

Binding:

Trade Cloth

Language:

English

Illustrations:

Yes

Pages:

xi, 336 p., 16 p. of plat

Dimensions:

9.24x6.24x1.23 in. 1.41 lbs.