viii, 280 pages : frontispiece, plates, portrait ; 23 cm
Contents
The tailless hippo.--Gossip on the last of Newgate.--The trail.--Recreations of prison.--The paradise and hell of felons.--Piratical.--The way out of Libbyy.--The criminal tattooed.--A citation before the Inquisition.--The master thief : scouts and accomplices.--Police.--Prisoners paroled.--The man eater of the terror [A.Q. Fouquier-Tinville]--Crime and superstition.--Surmises on the "Iron mask."--The man who slept on dynamite
