Villanos victorianos

Although the exploits of the greatest detectives of the Victorian era have been assembled into countless anthologies, the great artists of con and robbery have so far eluded capture. These twelve tales of villains and their misdeeds -a true subgenre of detective literature- come to remedy this oversight and bring together in a single volume the most charming scoundrels of the era of gas lighting, between the mid-1890s and the early 1990s. the twenties of the twentieth century. J. Raffles, Colonel Clay, Fast-Fortune Wallingford, the infallible Godahl... The legendary criminals in these stories arm themselves with their wits rather than guns. The reader will therefore find art forgeries and diamond smuggling, but no corpse in the library. His scandalous misdeeds, which challenge Victorian society's ideal of conduct and gross materialistic values, are actually a Robinhoodian effort to balance the scales of justice and redistribute wealth beyond the coffers themselves. But be it robbing in London or scamming in New York, what is clear in this anthology is that, above all, both authors and characters are having a truly great time.