Read Michael Sims's posts on the Penguin Blog An exclusive collection-the first- ever gathering of rogues from the gaslight era collected here for the first time: the best crime fiction from the gaslight era.
All the legendary thieves are present-Ars ne Lupin and A.
Raffles, Colonel Clay and Simon Carne, Romney Pringle, Get Rich Quick Wallingford, and the Infallible Godahl-burgling London and Paris, conning New York and Ostend, laughing all the way to the bank.
Also featured are stories by distinguished writers from outside the mystery and detective genres, including Sinclair Lewis, Arnold Bennett, H.
Wells, and William Hope Hodgson.
About the Author Michael Sims is the author of In the Womb: Animals (adapted from two National Geographic Channel documentaries).
He is also the author of Apollo's Fire: A Journey Through the Extraordinary Wonders of an Ordinary Day, which NPR chose as one of the best science books of 2007; Adam's Navel: A Natural and Cultural History of the Human Form, which was a New York Times Notable Book and a Library Journal Best Science Book; and Darwin's Orchestra: An Almanac of Nature in History and the Arts.
For Penguin Classics he also edited The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel, Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Thief, and The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime.
He has written for many periodicals, from the Washington Post to New Statesman.
| Time | The best crime fiction from the gaslight era |
|---|---|
| Womb | Animals (adapted from two |
| Fire | A |
| Navel | A |
| Orchestra | An |
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