Professional Criminals of America

Thomas F Byrnes

Cassell & Co & Dillingham , 1895

2 volume set. Uniformly bound.  Contains both the first edition, first published in 1886 and the revised edition published by Dillingham in 1895 (volume 2), with additional mug shots.  433 & 402 pp.: illustrations, portraits ; 29 cm. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. A late-nineteenth century rogues gallery of America's foremost murderers, bank robbers, con men, forgers, embezzlers, and pickpockets. Written in 1886, Professional Criminals of America contains biographical sketches, including photographs, of some four hundred of the nation's leading criminals. Each profile details the crimes committed and the circumstances leading up to arrest and conviction. Also included are short, informative chapters on criminal methods, executions, opium addiction, fugitives from justice, and prison commutation laws, along with intriguing chapters on mysterious unsolved murders, adventurers and adventuresses, and a list of every prison and state penitentiary in America at the time of publication.

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