Take some twenty wicked British villains. Add their dastardly crimes.
Then include their miserable backgrounds. Mix in some nefarious
conversations and combine all this together to produce an exciting
collection of stories: Villains of Yore.
This book describes in an entertaining way through conversations and
facts how criminals from Richard Pudlicott (1303) up to the
20th Century Elephant Gang operated on the wrong side of the
law to make their fortunes. Reading your way through these 700 years,
you will come across well-known characters such as Dick Turpin, Burke
and Hare and Moll Cutpurse, as well as some lesser known but equally
nasty characters, including Colonel Thomas Blood, Mary Carleton and
Jonathan Wild, the 'Thief-taker General'.
"Villains of Yore" by D. Lawrence-Young will open your eyes to the
criminal world and give you a completely new view on British social
history.