Search Results - "Criminals"

Oliver Twist by Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870

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Policing the City : Crime and Legal Authority in London, 1780-1840 / by Harris, Andrew T. (Andrew Todd), 1968-

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Gender and Petty Violence in London, 1680-1720 / by Hurl-Eamon, Jennine

“…History of crime and criminal justice…”
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The spiv and the architect unruly life in postwar London / by Hornsey, Richard Quentin Donald

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: social modernism and male homosexuality in postwar London -- Reconstructing everyday life in the atomic age -- The perversity of the zigzag: the criminality of queer urban desire -- Trial by photobooth: the public face of the homosexual citizen -- Of public libraries and paperbacks: the sexual geographies of reading -- Life in the cybernetic bedsit: interior design and the homosexual self -- Conclusion: city of any dream.…”
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The villainous stage : crime plays on Broadway and in the West End / by Lachman, Marvin

Table of Contents: “…Early days -- Adaptations and sensation -- History and mystery on stage -- Sherlock Holmes: Baker Street on stage -- Series detectives and rogues -- Agatha Christie, playwright -- Crook plays -- The theatre of the mind -- Trial and error: courtrooms on stage -- The stage side of the triangle -- The spy who came onto the stage -- A funny thing happened on the way to the theatre -- Spoofing the mystery -- Social studies I: race, ethnicity, and religion -- Social studies II: criminal justice -- Whodunits -- Just in crime: the musical.…”
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