Remarkable rogues
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Preface
4:48 -
Chapter 1 A Russianh Delilah
29:03 -
Chapter 2 An Infamous Female Poisoner
27:03 -
Chapter 3 Belle Star, The Girl Bushranger
29:20 -
Chapter 4 The Woman With The Fatal Eyes
28:57 -
Chapter 5 Madame Rachel, The Beauty Specialist
29:32 -
Chapter 6 The Monte Carlo Trunk Murderess
29:08 -
Chapter 7 Martha Kupfer, Swindler
30:02 -
Chapter 8 Madame Guerin, Matrimonial Agent
27:21 -
Chapter 9 The Murder Of Madame Houet
18:07 -
Chapter 10 The Bootmaker's Royal Wooing
20:15 -
Chapter 11 The Bogus Sir Richard Douglas
21:24 -
Chapter 12 The Enterprising Mrs. Chadwick
18:46 -
Chapter 13 The Million Dollar Ranch Girl
21:17 -
Chapter 14 James Greenacre
30:14 -
Chapter 15 Catherine Wilson
27:23 -
Chapter 16 Pierre Voirbo
29:35 -
Chapter 17 Emanuel Barthelemy
27:06 -
Chapter 18 William Parsons
28:41 -
Chapter 19 Adam Worth
28:29 -
Chapter 20 The Secret Princess Of Posen
21:35
Remarkable rogues (1921) is a public domain work.
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Social rank and a convincing manner become tools of deception in Charles Kingston's accounts of criminal lives in Europe and America. Published in 1921, the collection includes Marie Tarnowska, Belle Star, Madame Rachel and Adam Worth. Kingston's preface explains how trial reports, newspapers and information supplied by a detective helped him assemble his material. It also considers the attention that notorious cases attract from crowds, journalists and prominent spectators.
The opening follows Tarnowska's marriage and the growing discord within her aristocratic household. Later, an account of a man claiming royal identity gives way to Richard Douglas, who poses as a baronet in London and records his crimes in a diary. These biographical sketches place personal conduct beside the public response to it. Readers interested in the history of fraud and criminal celebrity can see how claims to prestige worked on trust, and how courtroom reporting helped shape reputations.
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- Author
- Charles Kingston
- Reading time
- About 6 hours
- Pages
- 181
- Language
- English
- Genre
- History
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