The Napoleon of Crime

The life and Times of Adam Worth

the Real Moriarty

PUBLIKACJA W JĘZYKU ANGIELSKIM

Ben Macintyre. Flamingo (An Imprint of Harper Collins Publishers), 1998. Stron 320, format – 13x19,5 cm. Oprawa miękka.

''He is the Napoleon of Crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and nearly all that is undetected in this great city. He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker…''

Adam Worth was the greatest master-criminal of Victorian times. Abjuring violence and gathering the trappings of respectability, he became the ringleader of the largest criminal network in the world and the model for Conan Doyle's evil genius, Professor Moriarty.

Starting out as a professional deserter during the American Civil War, Adam Worth soon made a name for himself in the notorious Bowery district of Manhattan. Embarking on a campaign of bank robbery, forgery and fraud, he moved among the upper classes, emulated them, and robbed them blind. His most audacious coup – the theft of the world's most valuable painting.

The Napoleon of Crime is a true account of the Victorian underworld that rivals the most imaginative fiction.

"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 thorough research, lyrical storytelling and empathetic crime reporting…a stylish, original and picturesque story that reads better that the vast bulk of crime books currently in print."
MICHAEL COREN, Literary Review

"A most remarkable and entertaining biography. It 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

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