The Napoleon of Crime
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The Napoleon of Crime by Ben Macintyre
The rumbustious true story of the Victorian master thief who was the model for Conan Doyles Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes arch-rival. From the bestselling author of Operation Mincemeat and Agent Zigzag.‘A good deal more thrilling than most thrillers’
Ruth Rendell, Daily Telegraph
‘A most remarkable and entertaining biographyIt is a highly charged thriller, a moving love affair, a dramatic history of the Victorian criminal underworld, a noble tragedy’
Alexander Waugh, Independent on Sunday
‘A well-researched and lively account…Macintyre has an appetite for fact, assiduity and wit’ Asa Briggs, The Times
‘This is a delicious mingling of through research, lyrical storytelling and empathetic crime reporting…a stylish, original, and picturesque story that reads better than the vast bulk of crime books currently in print’ Michael Coren, Literary Review
Ben MacIntyre is the author of Forgotten Fatherland, A Foreign Field, Agent Zigzag, Operation Mincemeat and Josiah the Great. He is the Associate Editor and a columnist for The Times and was the paper’s parlimentary sketch-writer, as well as its correspondent in New York, Paris and Washington. He lives in London.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780006550624 |
| ISBN 10 | 0006550622 |
| Title | The Napoleon of Crime |
| Author | Ben Macintyre |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 1998-06-15 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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