The Victorian Underworld by Donald Thomas
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The Victorian Underworld
Summary
Through the eyes of its inhabitants, this work portrays the 19th-century underworld, a place of night houses and cigar divans, of street people like the running-patterer with his news of murder, and entertainers like the Fire-King. It looks at the criminals, growth of prostitution and prisons.
The Victorian Underworld Summary
Table of Contents
Crime: Victoria's other London; the Dodgers and the Swell Mob; modern babylon; the unknown Victoria; More deadly than Prussic acid; entertainments - town and turf; Misapplied genius. Retribution: lagged for life; justice denied; the arrest of Scotland Yard; past and future.
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GOR008077446
9780719553936
0719553938
The Victorian Underworld by Donald Thomas
Used - Like New
Hardback
John Murray Press
19980312
352
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