A Book of Scoundrels

By Charles Whibley.

A volume of essays. “ While murder is well-nigh as old as life, property and the pocket invented theft, late-born among the arts. It was not until avarice had devised many a cunning trick for the protection of wealth, until civilisation had multiplied the forms of portable property, that thieving became a liberal and an elegant profession.”

Macmillan (1897) 284 pages.