Charles Peace, burglar, murderer, master of disguise and musician, was hanged in 1879 and at once became a legend. This enormous serial, first issued in a hundred weekly numbers, opens with a biographical sketch and then spins a sensational fiction around him, full of burglaries, chases, prisons and escapes.
A monumental example of the Victorian penny dreadful, for readers curious about popular crime literature. Download the free EPUB.