Zusammenfassung
Zusammenfassung von Berüchtigte Schurken
Für wen es gedacht ist
For readers who love true crime, police and court stories, and sharp portraits of human cunning, with swindlers, impostors and murderers from Europe and America.
Worum es in diesem Buch geht
Remarkable Rogues is a book of true crime sketches by Charles Kingston, a writer who spent his career on the subject of crime, courts and the people who passed through them. It gathers the careers of cunning criminals, swindlers and murderers from Europe and America, and tells each as a short narrative.
The book gives you the pleasure of a good tale and a close look at how crime really worked. You meet people who lived by their wits, and you see the tricks they used and the habits that finally gave them away. Let us begin with what sort of book this is, and why its rogues are worth your time.
In dieser Zusammenfassung
- 1A gallery of rogues, told as storiesFree
- 2Con artists live on trust
- 3Murderers and the slow work of detection
- 4What the rogues still teach today
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A gallery of rogues, told as stories
Kingston writes in the manner of a storyteller who happens to know the courts well. Each chapter is built around one criminal or one case, so you can read a single sketch and feel you have finished something. The book does not ask you to follow one long argument.
The word rogue is chosen with care. It covers the forger, the impostor and the thief as well as the killer, and it suggests a person of nerve and some charm as well as guilt. That gives the collection a lively, sometimes wry tone.
The subjects come from two sides of the Atlantic. Reading across them, you notice that the same kinds of weakness and greed turn up in very different cities and in different decades. That is one of the quiet pleasures of the book.
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Questions about Berüchtigte Schurken
What is Remarkable Rogues about?
It is a collection of true stories about notorious criminals, including cunning con artists and murderers, from Europe and America. Each chapter follows a rogue's career, methods and eventual exposure.
Is Remarkable Rogues a true story?
Yes. The book retells real cases and real people from the history of crime. Charles Kingston presents them as lively narratives, so they read like short stories, but they rest on actual events.
Who was Charles Kingston?
Charles Kingston was a writer on crime, courts and the law who died in 1944. He wrote popular books for general readers about trials, judges and notorious criminals.
Is Remarkable Rogues hard to read?
No. The chapters are short, self-contained and written as stories. The tales are easy to follow and can be read one at a time.
Is Remarkable Rogues worth reading?
It is worth reading if you like true crime and history. It offers varied, fast-moving cases and a picture of how crime and detection worked in an earlier age.