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Author |
: Shayne Davidson |
Publisher |
: McFarland |
Total Pages |
: 227 |
Release |
: 2020-07-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781476682549 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1476682542 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Queen of the Burglars by : Shayne Davidson
Born in the mid-nineteenth century, Sophie Lyons was a master thief, con artist, blackmailer and smuggler. Much of her success as a criminal was due to the fact that she was fearless, reckless, sharp and cunning--everything a woman of her time was not supposed to be. As a young child, Sophie's parents forced her to steal when she showed a talent for pickpocketing. Strong-willed and smart, she blossomed into a beautiful teenager who caught the eye of many men in the underworld of New York City. By the time Sophie reached her late teens she was married to her second husband--a notorious bank burglar named Ned Lyons--and was a professional criminal in her own right. Despite her prominent place in crime history, Sophie Lyons has never been the subject of a full-length biography. This book chronicles Sophie's fascinating and tragic life, from her beginnings as a criminal prodigy, through her ingenious escape from Sing Sing prison and her lifelong struggle with mental illness.
Author |
: Caitlin Davies |
Publisher |
: The History Press |
Total Pages |
: 344 |
Release |
: 2021-10-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780750999113 |
ISBN-13 |
: 075099911X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis Queens of the Underworld by : Caitlin Davies
'This book is an extremely important part of women's social history. Read it!' - Maxine Peake Robin Hood, Dick Turpin, Ronnie Biggs, the Krays ... All have become folk heroes, glamorised and romanticised, even when they killed. But where are their female equivalents? Where are the street robbers, gang leaders, diamond thieves, gold smugglers and bank robbers? Queens of the Underworld reveals the incredible story of female crooks from the seventeenth century to the present. From Moll Cutpurse to the Black Boy Alley Ladies, from jewel thief Emily Lawrence to bandit leader Elsie Carey and burglar Zoe Progl, these were charismatic women at the top of their game. But female criminals have long been dismissed as either not 'real women' or not 'real criminals', and in the process their stories have been lost. Caitlin Davies unravels the myths, confronts the lies and tracks down modern-day descendants in order to tell the truth about their lives for the first time.
Author |
: SOPHIE LYONS |
Publisher |
: HOLISTENCE PUBLICATIONS |
Total Pages |
: 265 |
Release |
: 2024-03-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9786256326156 |
ISBN-13 |
: 6256326156 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis WHY CRIME DOES NOT PAY by : SOPHIE LYONS
Author |
: Phineas Taylor Barnum |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 144 |
Release |
: 1903 |
ISBN-10 |
: MINN:31951P00999467D |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (7D Downloads) |
Synopsis The Swindlers of America by : Phineas Taylor Barnum
Author |
: Dorothy Cannell |
Publisher |
: Belgrave House |
Total Pages |
: 337 |
Release |
: 2013-09-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781610847858 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1610847857 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis God Save the Queen! by : Dorothy Cannell
Flora was raised at gloomy Gossinger Hall because her grandfather, Hutchins, was the butler there. When Sir Henry announced that he was changing his will to leave the Hall to Hutchins, he upset several people. But then Hutchins was found dead under curious circumstances. Coping with her loss, Flora moved to London, followed by Vivian Gossinger, the heir apparent. Was he trying to protect her—and from what? British Cozy Mystery by Dorothy Cannell; originally published by Bantam
Author |
: Margalit Fox |
Publisher |
: Random House |
Total Pages |
: 337 |
Release |
: 2024-07-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780593243855 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0593243854 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum by : Margalit Fox
America’s first great organized-crime lord was a lady—a nice Jewish mother named Mrs. Mandelbaum. “A tour de force . . . With a pickpocket’s finesse, Margalit Fox lures us into the criminal underworld of Gilded Age New York.”—Liza Mundy, author of The Sisterhood In 1850, an impoverished twenty-five-year-old named Fredericka Mandelbaum came to New York in steerage and worked as a peddler on the streets of Lower Manhattan. By the 1870s she was a fixture of high society and an admired philanthropist. How was she able to ascend from tenement poverty to vast wealth? In the intervening years, “Marm” Mandelbaum had become the country’s most notorious “fence”—a receiver of stolen goods—and a criminal mastermind. By the mid-1880s as much as $10 million worth of purloined luxury goods (nearly $300 million today) had passed through her Lower East Side shop. Called “the nucleus and center of the whole organization of crime,” she planned robberies of cash, gold and diamonds throughout the country. But Mrs. Mandelbaum wasn’t just a successful crook: She was a business visionary—one of the first entrepreneurs in America to systemize the scattershot enterprise of property crime. Handpicking a cadre of the finest bank robbers, housebreakers and shoplifters, she handled logistics and organized supply chains—turning theft into a viable, scalable business. The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum paints a vivid portrait of Gilded Age New York—a city teeming with nefarious rogues, capitalist power brokers and Tammany Hall bigwigs, all straddling the line between underworld enterprise and “legitimate” commerce. Combining deep historical research with the narrative flair for which she is celebrated, Margalit Fox tells the unforgettable true story of a once-famous heroine whose life exemplifies America’s cherished rags-to-riches narrative while simultaneously upending it entirely.
Author |
: Agnes Strickland |
Publisher |
: Good Press |
Total Pages |
: 1000 |
Release |
: 2023-12-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: EAN:8596547785569 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Queens of England by : Agnes Strickland
This book is a great introduction into the history of the British Empire and women who helped to shape it. The book starts with the very first queen in the history of Great Britain, Matilda of Flanders, the wife of William the conqueror, and goes through all the history, mentioning Berengaria of Navarre, the queen of the legendary king Ricard I and all the wives of Henry VIII among the others. The book is aimed at young adults and is written in a simple, understandable, and somewhat naïve manner characteristic of the Victorian-era books for young ladies. Yet, the light and relaxing tone of the book will make it interesting for adults seeking for an entertaining read with educational value. It contains a lot of captivating moments too. For example, the very first story of the book, tells that to win heart of her future queen, William the Conqueror, rolled her in mud and beat her.
Author |
: Ethan Brown |
Publisher |
: Anchor |
Total Pages |
: 290 |
Release |
: 2010-12-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307489937 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307489930 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis Queens Reigns Supreme by : Ethan Brown
Based on police wiretaps and exclusive interviews with drug kingpins and hip-hop insiders, this is the untold story of how the streets and housing projects of southeast Queens took over the rap industry.For years, rappers from Nas to Ja Rule have hero-worshipped the legendary drug dealers who dominated Queens in the 1980s with their violent crimes and flashy lifestyles. Now, for the first time ever, this gripping narrative digs beneath the hip-hop fables to re-create the rise and fall of hustlers like Lorenzo “Fat Cat” Nichols, Gerald “Prince” Miller, Kenneth “Supreme” McGriff, and Thomas “Tony Montana” Mickens. Spanning twenty-five years, from the violence of the crack era to Run DMC to the infamous murder of NYPD rookie Edward Byrne to Tupac Shakur to 50 Cent’s battles against Ja Rule and Murder Inc., to the killing of Jam Master Jay, Queens Reigns Supreme is the first inside look at the infamous southeast Queens crews and their connections to gangster culture in hip hop today.
Author |
: Mrs. Sophie Van Elkan Lyons Burke |
Publisher |
: Good Press |
Total Pages |
: 184 |
Release |
: 2019-11-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: EAN:4057664632890 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis Why Crime Does Not Pay by : Mrs. Sophie Van Elkan Lyons Burke
"Why Crime Does Not Pay" by Mrs. Sophie Van Elkan Lyons Burke. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author |
: Agnes Strickland |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 578 |
Release |
: 1852 |
ISBN-10 |
: HARVARD:HW23SD |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (SD Downloads) |
Synopsis Lives of the Queens of England by : Agnes Strickland