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The Unreliable Life of Harry the Valet
eBook - The Great Victorian Jewel Thief
ISBN/EAN: 9781409049791
Umbreit-Nr.: 6453120
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 320 S., 1.83 MB
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 05.05.2011
Auflage: 1/2011
E-Book
Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- <p>17 October 1898.</p><p>An impossibly daring jewellery heist aboard a train at Paris's Gare du Nord station captures the attention of the world.</p><p>Who would have dared to pull off such a feat?</p><p>Award-winning writer Duncan Hamilton reveals the true story of Harry the Valet, the notorious crook who was the scourge of Victorian London.</p><p>Harry conned and stole his way into high society, living a life of excess in London's best hotels and hang-outs. Dressed in bespoke suits and handmade shoes, Harry outwitted Scotland Yard with his trademark guile and panache.</p><p>With dozens of pseudonyms, no fixed address and a knowledge of his city that allowed him to hide in its shadows, Harry seemed almost invisible. Until, blinded by love, he carried out the robbery that would prove his downfall.</p>
- Autorenportrait
- Duncan Hamilton is the author of<i>Provided You Don't Kiss Me: 20 Years with Brian Clough</i>which won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year for 2007. In 2009, he was awarded the William Hill again, for<i>Harold Larwood</i>, as well as winning the prestigious Wisden Book of the Year for 2009 and Biography of the Year at the 2010 British Sports Book Awards. He lives in the Yorkshire Dales.
- Schlagzeile
- <b>A dramatic and compelling true story about a Victorian jewel thief from a prize-winning author</b>