The Thieves' Opera: The Remarkable Lives and Deaths of Jonathan Wild, Thief-taker and Jack Sheppard, House-breaker by Lucy Moore

The Thieves' Opera: The Remarkable Lives and Deaths of Jonathan Wild, Thief-taker and Jack Sheppard, House-breaker

Lucy Moore

246 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

fiction history true crime adventurous informative mysterious slow-paced
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From Gay's 'Beggars' Opera' and Hogarth's 'Industry and Idleness' to the 1969 film 'Where's Jack' the exploits of Jack Sheppard, burglar and escapologist extraordinaire, and Jonathan Wild, a gang boss who for twelve years convinced the Establishme...

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