Rick Wilson

The Man Who Was Jekyll and Hyde (eBook, ePUB)

The Lives and Crimes of Deacon Brodie

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The History Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780750963565
• Artikelnr.: 42543130

Autorenporträt

Rick Wilson is an author and has been a newspaper sub-editor for the Daily Express," the Daily Telegraph," and the Sunday Mirror." His books include "The Scots Who Made America" and "The Man Who Was Robinson Crusoe."