Charlottesville Words

Michael Sims gives us a head’s-up on a new book coming out during the next year from Penguin, tentatively titled, The Penguin Book of Gaslight Thieves: Confidence Tricksters, Burglars, Rogues, and Scoundrels from the Time of Sherlock Holmes, edited with critical introduction by Michael Sims. Thieves will include “Arsene Lupin in Prison,” by Maurice Leblanc, [...]

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