Trial of Deacon Brodie
Author : William Roughead
Publisher :
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 40,40 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Trials
ISBN :
Deacon Brodie
Author : John S. Gibson
Publisher : The Saltire Society
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 41,2 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780854110506
Book Description
Deacon Brodie, pillar of the Establishment turned arch-criminal, terrified late-18th-century Edinburgh. This book tells of the two Edinburghs - the respectable lawyers' capital and the lurid underworld of thieves and whores - in which Brodie led his dual existence, culminating in the armed theft of Scotland's revenues and Brodie's escape to Holland, whence he was brought back to be tried and executed. This extraordinary tale gave rise to the idea of Jekyll and Hyde in the fertile imagination of Robert Louis Stevenson almost a century later.
Deacon Brodie
Author : David Hutchison
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,29 MB
Release : 2015-05-31
Category : City council members
ISBN : 9781512175172
Book Description
When respected Gentleman and City Councillor, Deacon William Brodie, chases his love of gambling, he is drawn deep into a double life. Before long the open respectability of day gives way to a hidden life of crime at night, and soon, Brodie is on a trajectory to disaster - one which leads him to the gibbet. Set in the Edinburgh of 1788, Deacon Brodie: A Double Life is a fact-based novel which shows Brodie's love for gambling and risk sweeping him into a life of crime. Betrayed by an accomplice, and revealed as a "Gentleman by day, thief by night", Brodie escapes the city, is captured in Holland, then faced with a trial before a city where once he was a leading citizen. When he is sentenced to be hanged, his closest friend has a different idea and, in full view of everyone, Brodie takes his riskiest gamble yet . . .
The Trial of William Brodie
Author : William Brodie
Publisher :
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 16,41 MB
Release : 1788
Category : Trials (Robbery)
ISBN :
Book Description
An Account of the Trial of William Brodie
Author : William Creech
Publisher :
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 43,48 MB
Release : 1788
Category : Trials (Robbery)
ISBN :
Book Description
An Account of the Trial of William Brodie and George Smith, Before the High Court of Justiciary, on the 27th and 28th Days of August, 1788
Author : William Brodie
Publisher :
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 44,24 MB
Release : 1788
Category : Trials (Robbery)
ISBN :
Book Description
The Trial of William Brodie Wright and Cabinet Maker in Edinburgh, and of George Smith Grocer There, Before the High Court of Justiciary, Held at Edinburgh on Wednesday the 27th, and Thursday the 28th, August 1788
Author : William Brodie
Publisher :
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 29,45 MB
Release : 1788
Category : Criminals
ISBN :
Book Description
The Trial of William Brodie ... and of George Smith ... Before the High Court of Justiciary, Held at Edinburgh ... the 27th, and ... 28th, August 1788; for Breaking Into the General Excise-Office at Edinburgh ... By Æneas Morison, Etc. [With a Portrait.]
Author : William BRODIE (of Edinburgh, Cabinet maker.)
Publisher :
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,27 MB
Release : 1788
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
In Search of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Author : Raymond McNally
Publisher : Renaissance Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 26,42 MB
Release : 2000-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781580631570
Book Description
Journeying behind Robert Louis Stevenson's terrifying tale of horror, THe Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the authors of In Search of Dracula explore the life and times of William Deacon Brodie, the real-life murderer who inspired the story, and Stevenson's fascination with Brodie's double life and the eighteenth-century Edinburgh that spawned him. 20,000 first printing.
On War
Author : Carl von Clausewitz
Publisher :
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 10,23 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Military art and science
ISBN :
