PICTURESQUE ROGUES Chronicle of the Lives and Adventures of a Diversity of Rogues in which will be Found Something of the Romantic, Something of the Picturesque, and Occasionally Something of the Saving Grace of Humour

Hardback. The author, instead of presenting all the 'negatives' of his chosen criminals, had endeavoured to present the more picturesque, the more romantic, even the more humerous elements in their characters. Contents include : A Literary Hoaxer (George Psalmanazar); The Priest Who Became a Pasha (Abbe de Vateville); The "Fake" Play (William Ireland); A Pirate with Principles (Captain Misson); Germany's Dick Turpin (John Buckler); The Man Who Would Not be Guillotined (Claude Montcharmont); A Blue-eyed Bandit (Henry Plummer); "Billy the Kid" (William Bonney); The Fascinating Murderer (George Smith); Arctic Artfulness (Dr. Cook); The "Flim-Flammer" (Charles Weiss) + others. With Index. 207pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Lightly browned edges and eps o/w Vg+.