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Book SynopsisAn exclusive collection—the first-ever gathering of rogues from the gaslight era, including Arsène Lupin, the inspiration for the new Netflix series Lupin, starring Omar Sy collected here for the first time: the best crime fiction from the gaslight era. All the legendary thieves are present-Arsène Lupin and A. J. Raffles, Colonel Clay and Simon Carne, Romney Pringle, Get Rich Quick Wallingford, and the Infallible Godahl-burgling London and Paris, conning New York and Ostend, laughing all the way to the bank. Also featured are stories by distinguished writers from outside the mystery and detective genres, including Sinclair Lewis, Arnold Bennett, H. G. Wells, and William Hope Hodgson.
Trade Review"Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may the more perfectly respect it."
-G. K. Chesterton
Table of ContentsThe Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Fools and Their Money
Suggestions for Further ReadingThe Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime
Grant Allen (1848-1899)
The Episode of the Diamond Links
Guy Boothby (1867-1905)
The Duchess of Wiltshire's Diamonds
E. W. Hornung (1866-1921)
Nine Points of the Law
Robert Barr (1849-1912)
The Mystery of the Five Hundred Diamonds
Arnold Bennett (1867-1931)
A Comedy on the Gold Coast
William Le Queux (1864-1927)
The Story of a Secret
O. Henry (1862-1910)
The Chair of Philanthromathematics
George Randolph Chester (1869-1924)
Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford
Frederick Irving Anderson (1877-1947)
Blind Man's Buff
William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918)
The Diamond Spy
Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951)
The Willow Walk
Edgar Wallace (1875-1932)
Four Square Jane
