The Napoleon of Crime

The Life and Times of Adam Worth, Master Thief

Ben Macintyre

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Random House Inc
05 April 2011

Biography; Biography: general; True crime; History of the Americas; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Popular beliefs & controversial knowledge

From the New York Times bestselling author of Prisoners in the Castle, a dramatic portrait of the master thief of the nineteenth century: Adam Worth

“Fascinating . . . a brisk, lively, colorful biography of an amazing criminal.”—The New York Times (Best Books of the Year) The Victorian era’s most infamous and iconic thief, the inspiration for Sherlock Holmes’s Professor Moriarty, Adam Worth was known as the Napoleon of crime. Suave, cunning, and fearless, Worth learned early that the best way to succeed was to steal. And steal he did. Following a strict code of honor, Worth won the respect of Victorian society. He also aroused its fear by becoming a chilling phantom, mingling undetected with the upper classes, whose valuables he brazenly stole. His most celebrated heist: Gainsborough’s grand portrait of the Duchess of Devonshire—ancestor of Diana, Princess of Wales—a painting Worth adored and often slept with for twenty years. With a brilliant gang that included “Piano” Charley, a jewel thief, train robber, and playboy, and “the Scratch” Becker, master forger, Worth secretly ran operations from New York to London, Paris, and South Africa—until betrayal and a Pinkerton man finally brought him down. The Napoleon of Crime is a grand, dazzling tour into the gaslit underworld of the nineteenth century, and into the doomed genius of a criminal mastermind.

By: Ben Macintyre
Imprint: Random House Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 201mm, Width: 131mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 329g
ISBN: 9780307886460
ISBN 10: 0307886468
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 05 April 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

BEN MACINTYRE is a writer-at-large for The Times of London and the bestselling author of A Spy Among Friends, Double Cross, Operation Mincemeat, Agent Zigzag, The Napoleon of Crime, and Forgotten Fatherland, among other books. Macintyre has also written and presented BBC documentaries of the wartime espionage trilogy.

Reviews for The Napoleon of Crime: The Life and Times of Adam Worth, Master Thief

Fascinating...a brisk, lively, colorful biography of an amazing criminal. --The New York Times Adam Worth, the greatest thief of the 19th century, could have furnished the basis of a great novel...Ben Macintyre has given him a biography that reads like one. --Los Angeles Times Book Review A New York Times Notable Book