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Item Details
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THE MAN WHO WAS JEKYLL AND HYDE
THE LIVES AND CRIMES OF DEACON BRODIE |
| By: |
Rick Wilson |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£5.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0750963565 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780750963565 |
| Publisher: |
THE HISTORY PRESS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
2 March, 2015 |
| Pages: |
224 |
| Description: |
He was a respected cabinet-maker and councillor by day - but Deacon William Brodie changed into a sinister, thieving monster when darkness fell on the old city of Edinburgh. |
| Synopsis: |
He was a respected cabinet-maker and councillor by day - but Deacon William Brodie changed into a sinister, thieving monster when darkness fell on the old city of Edinburgh.Cleverly employing his respectable reputation to access the richest members of society before stealing from them as a masked burglar, he used the resulting illicit money to fund yet another life - with five children and two mistresses.But Brodie - whose chilling story inspired Robert Louis Stevenson to create the classic tale of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde about a century later - came fatally unstuck when a captured accomplice informed on him. Then neither his ill-gotten gains nor his steel collar designed to cheat the hangman could save him...Author Rick Wilson offers a warts-and-all biography of Brodie, from his relatively innocent young years through to his public disgrace and execution... hanging on the very gallows he conceived himself. |
| Illustrations: |
8 Plates, black and white; 50 Illustrations, black and white |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
The History Press Ltd |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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