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Crime city : Manchester's Victorian underworld by O'Neill, Joseph is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Crime city : Manchester's Victorian underworld about?

Victorian Manchester was once described as a 'city of two classes', a rogue's paradise where vast wealth sat beside grinding poverty. It was unique, and so was its underworld. Historian Joseph O'Neill recreates the sights, sounds and smells of a lost milieu in all their fascinating detail. He chronicles the era's crooks, cracksmen, pimps, prostitutes, conmen, garrotters and bareknuckle fighters, and the gin palaces, dance halls and cheap brothels that were as much a part of Manchester as giant cotton mills. . Here are legendary detective Jerome Caminada, the super-criminal Charlie Peace, street gangs like the Bengal Tigers, and myriad other characters like One-Armed Dick, the infamous fence, all denizens of a time when brutality was commonplace and death lurked down every alley.

Who reads Crime city : Manchester's Victorian underworld?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
O'Neill, Joseph
Publisher
Milo Books Ltd
Published
2011
Language
EN
ISBN
9781908479129
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Social Science, True Crime, Crime

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