The Unreliable Life of Harry The Valet

The Unreliable Life of Harry The Valet by Duncan Hamilton


ISBN
9781846058134
Published
Released
02 / 05 / 2011
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
304
Dimensions
143 x 218 x 34mm

Harry the Valet began his criminal career out of grief, but became Europe's most notorious jewel thief out of love. His daring and well planned theft of the Dowager Duchess of Sutherland's jewels from her train carriage at Paris' Gare du Nord station on October 1898 was one of the most widely reported court cases of the late Victorian era. Harry took more than 40 pieces of jewellery with an approximate value of u30,000 u a sum worth nearly u2m today. But what no one knew at the time was that he had already committed nine almost identical crimes. The story of a real-life Raffles u a man who wore bespoke suits and handmade shoes; who used a dozen pseudonyms to dust over his tracks; who belonged to three smart London clubs and lived in the luxury of West End hotels; whose staple diet was champagne and whisky; who was pursued by London's top detectives for five and a half years and u by their own admission u 'proved smarter' than them; and who fell so much in love with an Gaiety girl, a women who he would steal for and lie for and who would eventually betray him. The Unreliable Life of Harry the Valet reads like detective fiction, but has romance at its heart u a love story which endured on Harry's part for the rest of his life, despite the treachery that sent him to jail u a love that ultimately destroyed him.
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