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A cultural history of crime, being a readable and scholarly compendium of short biographies of the most notorious thieves, reprobates, rogues, and murderers throughout history.
Stephen Basdeo is an expert in eighteenth and nineteenth century crime history, as well as Victorian medievalism. He blogs about the history of crime on his website entitled Here Begynneth a Lytell Geste of Robyn Hood www.gesteofrobinhood.com Stephen has another forthcoming book with Pen & Sword entitled _The Life and Legend of a Rebel Leader: Wat Tyler_ (2018)