The Man Who Was Jekyll and Hyde [electronic resource] : The Lives and Crimes of Deacon Brodie
Wilson, Rick2015
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He was a respected cabinet-maker and councillor by day – but Deacon William Brodie changed into a sinister, thieving monster when darkness fell on the old city of Edinburgh.Cleverly employing his respectable reputation to access the richest members of society before stealing from them as a masked burglar, he used the resulting illicit money to fund yet another life – with five children and two mistresses.But Brodie – whose chilling story inspired Robert Louis Stevenson to create the classic tale of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde about a century later – came fatally unstuck when a captured accomplice informed on him. Then neither his ill-gotten gains nor his steel collar designed to cheat the hangman could save him…Author Rick Wilson offers a warts-and-all biography of Brodie, from his relatively innocent young years through to his public disgrace and execution… hanging on the very gallows he conceived himself.
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[Place of publication not identified] : The History Press, 2015
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1 online resource (1 text file)
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9780750963565
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English
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2545817