[Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths 01] • Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Dublin
- Authors
- Wade, Stephen
- Publisher
- Wharncliffe Books
- Tags
- basic code 1: tru002000 , bisac code 1: tru002000
- ISBN
- 9781844687060
- Date
- 2008-04-22T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 17.18 MB
- Lang
- en
**Tory gangs, madmen, war criminals, frauds, anarchists, duelists, kidnappers, and more scandal-makers throughout four centuries of Irish history.**
Dublin is a wonderful, energetic cultural center--the pride of Irish achievements in architecture, arts, and literature. But it is also a city of paradoxes and conflicts--and a long, fascinating history of crime.
Stephen Wade now reveals Dublin's "strange eventful history" in this thrilling collection of murderers, thieves, daredevil highwaymen, libelers, seducers, and bloody avengers--from eighteenth-century turncoats to Victorian-era rogues to a twentieth-century parliamentary candidate with a killer past. Amid tales of sensational investigations and infamous courtroom trials, readers will discover the truth behind the disappearance of the Crown Jewels in 1907; the bizarre motives of nineteenth-century serial killer John Delahunt; and the startling charges leveled against Oscar Wilde's father, a revolutionary doctor embroiled in a felonious and sexual *cause c�l�bre* of his own.