London's Underworld - Three Centuries of Vice & Crime BOOKS We follow the ingenious criminals

We follow the ingenious criminals who carried out the first great train robbery in 1854

The book is in an unread condition

how they learned to cope with the ever present threat

The author draws on extensive archive material to tell the extraordinary and frequently ludicrous story of these less-than-heroic Britons

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London's Underworld - Three Centuries of Vice & Crime BOOKS We follow the ingenious criminalsFergus Linnane First Edition Published 2003 This book is the superbly evocative survey of 300 years of crime in the capital. Full of vivid detail, the author takes us on a journey of crime and vice. We follow the ingenious criminals who carried out the first great train robbery in 1854, whilst entering the death trap eighteenth century prisons. We walk the Victorian London, awash with prostitutes, beggars and thieves. We see the rise and fall of the