TY - BOOK ID - 149867110 TI - Crime & Criminals of Victorian England. PY - 2013 SN - 075249676X PB - New York : The History Press, DB - UniCat KW - Crime -- England -- History -- 19th century. KW - Criminals -- England -- History -- 19th century. KW - Crime KW - Criminals KW - History KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:149867110 AB - Dark and foggy Victorian streets, the murderous madman, the arsenic-laced evening meal - we all think we know the realities of Victorian crime. Adrian Gray's book thrillingly reflects some of this, ranging over classic murders by knife and poison. But it also covers much more, taking the reader into less familiar parts of Victorian life, uncovering the wicked, the vengeful, the foolish and the hopeless amongst the criminal world of the nineteenth century. Here you will encounter the women who sold their children, the bankers who stole the money they were supposed to keep safe, smugglers, ER -