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The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime : Con Artists, Burglars, Rogues, and Scoundrels from the Timeof Sherlock Holmes Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize (1983) and a once glorious legacyTake a trip back to a time when criminals armed themselves with wit rather than with guns, and the pinnacle of crime fighting technology was represented by Sherlock Holmes's magnifying glass. Edited by award winning author and editor Michael Sims, The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime presents, for the first time, the best crime fiction from the gaslight era gathered in a single volume. All the legendary thieves are present from Colonel Clay to Get Rich